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ARCHWAY ROAD.
Twenty-four houses with shops haying been erected on the northeast
side of the road north of Thomas St reet, the vestry resolved to put
the provisions of the Metropolis Management Acts in force to compel
the owners of property in and abutting on the road to make and pave it
as a new street.
A strip of ground having an average width of 10 feet 8 inches and
containing an area of 5,553 feet super having been given up and added
to the public way by the owner of the property between Thomas Street
and Archway Villas, in compliance with a condition imposed by the
London County Council when giving consent to the erection of the
shops in advance of the general line of buildings in that part of the
road, the kerb has been set back between a point 50 feet north-west of
Flowers Mews and No. 2, Archway Villas, the carriageway and footway
widened, and a pitched channel laid; and the footway on the north-east
side of the road has been paved between Flowers Mews and Archway
Villas. The whole of the work has been done at the expense of the
owners of property in the road.
HIDES STREET.
The School Board for London having obtained a provisional order
under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, empowering them to
take Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10, Hides Street, and also the portion of the street,
about 54 feet in length on which those premises abut, the street has
been stopped up and appropriated by the Board. The vestry owned
the paving in the portion of the street referred to, and this the Board
was required to take up and deliver to the Vestry's depot.
WORKHOUSE LANE.
In the annual report for last year it was stated that the Vestry
was taking steps to get this lane closed. Daring the past year the
magistrates have, on the application of the Vestry, made an order for
closing it on the understanding that the Guardians should purchase a
piece of ground between the north-east angle of Cressida Road and the
north-west end of the lane sufficient to admit of the making of a road
40 feet wide, and that the vestry should make the road and construct
a sewer therein at their expense in substitution for the thoroughfare
thus closed. The works have been carried out, and the lane closcd and
added to the workhouse grounds. The Guardians have given up a