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om an influential member of the Vestry, suggesting that a Branch.
the Imperial Institute should be built on the vacant Prison site —
dding my own recommendation to the same effect. This letter was
ent to Sir Frederick Abel, the Secretary to the Committee of the
institute, presided over by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. To this
better I have received no reply as yet.
I am, My Dear Sir,
Faithfully yours,
FPEDK. T. PENTON.
Robert Paget, Esq.,
Vestry Clerk.
The Vestry took this letter into consideration at their
next Meeting and decided to communicate to the Home
Secretary the views of the Vestry with regard to the pre???ervation
of the site as an open space, and suggested that
if it be the intention of the Government to appropriate the
site of the Prison for Artizans' Dwellings, the Metropolitan
Board of Works should be relieved of the obligation to
provide similar accommodation on the line of the new street
from the Gray's Inn Road to the "Angel."
With this step the year closed to which this Report
relates.
Board School Sites.—In November the attention of the
Vestry was called to the Scheduling of three sites in the
Parish for the erection of new Schools in Sermon Lane;
Northampton Road and Fletchers Row; and Waterloo
Place and Bowling Green Lane; and they took into their
consideration the necessity of additional School Buildings
being provided in the Parish, and the eligibility of the
sites which had been selected. In regard to Sermon Lane
and Bowling Green Lane, the Vestry did not deem it
necessary to take any action, but with reference to the site
scheduled in Fletcher's Row, and Northampton Road, the
Vestry, through its Works Committee had an interview
with the Chairman of the School Managers for the district,
the Rev. J. H. Rose, M.A., the Vicar, who pointed out