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School Board, and asking the Vestry to take such steps as
they might be able to do to induce the School Board to
reconsider their decision. The Vestry thereupon wrote the
School Board, suggesting Lloyd's Row and Thomas Street,
opposite Green Terrace, as equally eligible and less expensive,
and appointed a deputation, who waited upon a
Committee of the School Board, and urged the objections
to the Green Terrace site, but on the 18th March a letter
was received from the Works Committee of the Board,
stating that they could not see their way to recommend
the Board to abandon the site. Upon the receipt of this
letter the Vestry expressed their regret at the decision of
the Board, and directed the Clerk to point out several
other sites in the immediate neighbourhood more suitable
than Green Terrace.
Accordingly, on the 21st March a letter was written
suggesting Hardwick Street, a piece of vacant land in
Rawstorne Street, Taylor's Row, Fletcher's Row, Northampton
Row, and vacant land in Farringdon Road (site of the
Clerkenwell Workhouse).
To this, however, the Board replied that they were not
prepared to abandon the site in Green Terrace.
The Vestry, however, not being satisfied with that decision,
hope that further steps may yet be taken to preserve
Green Terrace.
Goswell Road.—The paving and irregular cleansing of
the lower portion of Goswell Road being the subject of
some complaint, owing to the lapse of an agreement for 21
years made in 1857, between this Vestry and the Vestry
of St. Luke's, by which the latter Vestry undertook the
repair of the southern portion, while Clerkenwell had the
control of the northern, the Vestry have entered into negociations
with St. Luke's with the view of again dividing
the road latitudinally between the two Parishes, and have
come to an arrangement to divide the road opposite Seward