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received that it was so appropriated for Post Office
and School Board purposes.
Mr. Johnson, a member of the Vestry, stated
that he had been informed by Captain Penton that
the School Board, with the consent of the Education
Department, had asked the Home Office to
reserve to them that portion of the Coldbath
^Fields Prison Site which is at the corner of
Farringdon Road and Mount Pleasant, and that
the Board have also arranged with the Home
Office and the Treasury for the purchase of the
site of the House of Detention, it not being yet
settled whether the Board will require the whole,
or only a portion of the site, but if only a portion,
the remainder will be resold.
The Vestry thereupon decided to send a protest
to the School Board and the Treasury, against the
selection of the site at the corner of Farringdon
Road and Mount Pleasant, as being, in the opinion
of the Vestry, very unsuitable, and highly dangerous
to the children attending such school, as the
approach would be across thoroughfares of heavy
and continued traffic.
This was the last step taken within the year to
which the report relates.
[It may, however, be here stated that on the 7th Jane, 1888, the Vestry
received a letter from the School Board, stating that tbey had abandoned the
proposal to erect a school on the site.]
Tramways.—The proposals to construct Tramways
which came before the Vestry during the
year were as follows:—
The London Street Tramways Co. gave notice of
their intention to seek powers to extend their
tramways from the present terminus at Clerkenwell
road down Farringdon Road and Farringdon Street.
The Vestry were strongly in favour of this scheme,