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Council, urging the claim of the Parish of Clerkenwell
to the sum of £10,000 received by the Council
from the Post Office, as provided by the Post Office
Sites Act. The Council replied on the 5th January
that the whole subject was under their consideration.
The matter was at this stage at the
close of the period to which this report relates.
St. James' Churchyard, Opening of.—The
formal opening of St. James' Churchyard was performed
by Lady Lubbock, on Wednesday evening,
the 1st July, at 6.30 p.m. Sir John Lubbock, M.P.,
Chairman of the London County Council, Captain
Penton, M.P., Earl Compton, and Mr. F. A. Ford,
and several members of the Public Gardens Association
were present upon the occasion.
Land in Smith Street.—The Marquess of
Northampton, through his agent Mr. Boodle, proposed
that he should pave two pieces of ground on
the west side of Smith Street, on the understanding
that the Vestry would cleanse and light them, and
allow them to be used for recreation, &c., and as an
approach to the adjoining property, but it was not
proposed to dedicate the pieces of land to the
public, but to preserve them as the private property
of the Marquess, subject to the agreement with the
Vestry. Mr. Boodle further intimated that hereafter,
when re-building of the neighbourhood takes
place, some re-arrangement will probably have to
be made, and there will, no doubt, be wider spaces
provided.
The agreement was duly entered into, and the
pieces of ground were formally thrown open on the
17th August, 1891.