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The Shepherdess Walk Improvement.
This Improvement was undertaken at the request of the Vestries of
Shoreditch and St. Luke's, and of the inhabitants of those Parishes and
Islington. It consisted in the purchase of a strip of land occupied by
St. Luke's Workhouse, and the setting back of the wall and buildings
thereon to the extent of some 15-feet, thus giving a roadway of 40-feet
in width. The amount paid by the Metropolitan Board to the St.
Luke's Guardians, and other parties having an interest therein, was about
£14,000. The improvement also involves the removal of the fore-courts
of Lady Lumley's Almshouses, on the East side of Shepherdess Walk,
and the Board is now in negociation with the Parishes of Bishopsgate
Street and Aldgate, to which the Almshouses belong, for the purchase
and removal of those fore-courts.
The Metropolitan Board undertook to kerb and pave the footways,
and to macadamise the roadway of the widened portion of the road, and
the engineer's estimate of the cost of such work was £2500. The
Vestry's Representatives, Messrs. Hows and Dodd, considered that such
estimate was excessive for macadam, and that the carriage way might
be paved with granite cubes for about the same amount, and they
brought the matter under the consideration of the Vestry, the Vestry's
contractor having made an offer to perform the whole of the work for
£2500, The Vestry made a similar offer to the Metropolitan Board,
which was accepted, and the paving of the foot and carriage way was
entrusted to the Vestry, the Metropolitan Board agreeing to pay the
Vestry the stipulated price of £2500, when the work should be completed
to the satisfaction of the Board's engineer. The whole of the
work has been executed except the removal of the fore-courts of the
almshouses, and the paving of the site of the same. The Metropolitan
Board has paid the Vestry the sum of £2400 on account, which has
been paid to the contractor.
Huntingdon Street Improvement.
The leases of the greater portion of the estate of Sir John Tyssen
Tyrell, Bart., situate between Hoxton Street and Kingsland Road,
having nearly expired, the freeholder obtained possession of the property,
removed the greater portion of the dwellings then standing, which were