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that the Improvements Committee have passed the following
Resolution, which the Deputy Chairman of the Council has been
requested to communicate to the House of Commons upon the
consideration of the Post Office Sites' Bill:—
" That, in view of the greatly increased traffic which will be
"occasioned in the event of the establishment of a Post Office
" to occupy the site of the Coldbath Fields Prison, this
"Committee is of opinion that it is very desirable to widen
" Farringdon Road from Exmouth Street to Lower Calthorp
" Street, to the extent of 10 feet, and tbat the land required for
" this purpose should be obtained from the present site of the
" prison."
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
The Clerk of H. DE LA. HOOKE,
The Yestry of Clerkenwell. Clerk of the Council.
General Post Office, London,
9th August, 1889.
Sir,
The Postmaster-General has had before him your letter of
the 9th ultimo, intimating that in the opinion of the Clerkenwell
Yestry, it is very desirable that Farringdon Road should be
widened by the setting back of the boundary wall of the old Prison
premises at Coldbath Fields. Mr. Raikes has also received a
Deputation of certain members of the Yestry and Ratepayers, who
asked that, in view of the additional traffic thrown upon Farringdon
Rond by the Post Office occupation of the Prison premises, a
strip of th« frontage 10 feet wide along the whole length of the
property should be given up by the Government to widen the
Street.
In reply, I am directed to state for the information of the
Vestry and the members of the Deputation, that Mr. Ptaikes is
fully alive to the importance of the question which has thus been
brought before him ; he is advised, however, that there would be
some difficulty in giving up the proposed strip of 10 feet in width,
but that it would be sufficient if the frontage were set back so as
to increase the width of the Street, which now varies in that part
from about 44 feet to about 54 feet to 60 feet uniformly; and this
he would be prepared, at the proper time, to recommend Her
Majesty's Government to concede.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Robert Paget, Esq., S. A. BLACKWOOD.
Clerkenwell Vestry Hall.