Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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between King's Cross Road and Tramway Stables
having been previously paved by the Tramway
Company.
Carriageways—Asphalte.—The Carriageways of
the following Streets were paved with compressed
asphalte:—Gt. Sutton Street, Exmouth Street
(between Rosoman Street and intersection of Rosebery
Avenue), Tysoe Street (between Rosebery
Avenue and Exmouth Street), Eagle Court, part of
Skinner Street and Rosoman Street, Newcastle
Street and Woodbridge Street (between Corporation
Row and Sekforde Street.)
Channels.—A new granite channel was laid in
Colney Hatch Lane, between Alexandra Park
Road and the southern boundary of the Parish, and
between Birkbeck Road and the existing channel.
A channel was paved with second-hand granite
cubes on concrete in Rydon Crescent, Granville
Place, and north side of Vernon Street.
The Pebble Channels of Garnault Place (west
side only), Newcastle Row, Great Percy Street
(between Lloyd Street and Percy Circus on the
south side, and between Holford Street and Percy
Circus, on the north side), Percy Circus (part of),
Gloucester Street and Green Terrace (between
Gloucester Street and Garnault Place), were taken
up and the Channels repaved with second-hand
granite cubes, on Portland cement concrete.