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The old columns and lanterns have been removed from City Road,
Qoswell Road, Newington Green Road, and from a portion of Green
Lanes, and ornamental columns with improved lanterns substituted.
The total cost of the gas supplied to street lamps for the
year (including lighting, extinguishing and cleaning) amounted to
£12,827 10s. 10d., as against £12,518 5s. 0d. for the previous twelve
months. £708 0s. 9½d. was expended in the purchase of now columns,
lanterns and fittings, and for the general maintenance of street lamps.
New refuge lamps have been fixed in Holloway Road opposite the
south-east side of Junction Road, in Sunnyeide Road by Elthorne Road,
and in Mercers Road, by Yerbury Road. The positions of 79 lamps
have been altered, the lighting of 39 has been discontinued, and
110 street name tablets have been fixed upon lamps which are in suitable
situations at the corners of streets.
The substitution of 16 inch lanterns for old 14 inch lanterns has
been continued, 31 of the former having been put up during the year.
Permission has been given for the erection of private column
lamps on the footway at the undermentioned places, an agreement
having been entered into by the owner of the lamps in each case:—
2 in front of Holloway Hall, Holloway Road.
9 in front of Nos. 136a, 136, 138, 140a, 140, 142, 144a, 144
and 146, Seven Sisters Road.
2 in front of Middleton Hall, Almeida Street.
4 in front, of Nos. 358, 360, 364 and 366, Holloway Road.
2 in front of Nos. 442 and 444, Holloway Road.
Six convictions have been obtained at the Police Courts against
persons found guilty of wilfully extinguishing street lamps.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
No steps having been taken as mentioned in the last Annual
Report by the House to House Electric Supply Company to carry the
Order obtained by them iu 1890 into effect, a correspondence ensued