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SHOWS, FAIRS, &c.
With a view to preventing the re-establishment of the shows
which a year or two ago caused considerable annoyance in the
High Street and neighbourhood during Cattle Show week, the Vestry,
as in the previous year, caused notices to be exhibited in the vicinity
cautioning shopkeepers and others against letting their premises for the
purpose of holding shows or exhibitions therein, intimating that
proceedings would be taken against any person offending.
The notices apparently had the desired effect as no further action
was necessary.
PUBLIC BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.
The site of Devonshire House, Hornsey Road, having been obtained,
as intimated in the report for last year, for the erection of the northern
Baths and Washhouses, the Commissioners in June, 1891, reported to the
Yestry that Mr. A. H. Tiltmanhad again, after competition, been chosen
as the Architect, and requested and obtained the sanction of the Yestry to
a loan of £24,000 for the erection and fitting up of the necessary
buildings.
The loan having been sanctioned by the Local Government Board,
a contract was shortly afterwards entered into with Messrs. Macfarlane
Brothers for carrying out the works. These at the termination of the year
with which this report deals are well advanced towards completion, and
promise to form one of the finest Public Bath and Washhouse establishments
in the kingdom. The other establishment (that in the Caledonian
Road), will, it is anticipated, be ready for opening in May next.
ALTERATIONS TO YESTRY HALL.
It was intimated in the last annual report that the General
Purposes Committee had brought under the notice of the Vestry
the desirability of the Burial Board being requested to vacate its
present office on the ground floor in order that better accommodation
might be provided for the increased staff of the Works Department, but
that the proposal had not met with the approval of the Yestry.
The Committee has again brought the necessity for further accommodation
under notice and ultimately it was decided to utilize the front