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It has given me great pleasure to have had an opportunity of
visiting and admiring your newly-erected Town Hall and of
opening a Bazaar in aid of your Parochial Schools. I trust
that every success may attend your efforts for promoting the
welfare of your Parish and the prosperity of the parishioners.
HELENA.
To The Vestry of the Parish of St. James
and St. John, Clerkenwell.
Charges for Letting the Town Hall. —The
Vestry have carefully considered and adopted a
scale of charges to be made for letting the Town
Hall, and the gross receipts for same from the opening
until the 25th March amounted to £255 12s. 8d.
Site of Old Vestry Hall.—The Vestry have
carefully considered what steps should be taken
for the utilization of the site of the old Vestry
Hall. A great need exists for yard accommodation,
the small area previously existing having
been curtailed by the building of the Town Hall,
and it is highly desirable that such accommodation
should be under the constant supervision of the
Surveyor. Having regard to this necessity, and to
the fact that the site is freehold, and provides the
only means by which the Town Hall could be extended,
if through alterations in London government
or for any other reason it should be necessary
to do so, the Vestry think that it would be imprudent
to sell the site, and they have, therefore
considered as to the best means of utilizing same,
while retaining the control of it. They have therefore
decided, subject to the consent of the County
Council being obtained to the necessary loan, to
erect a building in the same style of architecture
as the Town Hall, where a basement could be provided
and the ground floor left open as a yard; the
upper floors being capable of being let off until