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Hoxton Street. The Haberdasher's Company give up a portion of the
ground required, and the Vestry has agreed to purchase of other owners
the remainder. The cost will be about £1600. The Metropolitan
Board has consented to pay one-half of the same.
The arrangement made last year with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
for the opening up of the thoroughfare from Luke Street to
Curtain Road, through Charles Street, with some other alterations in
the vicinity, has been carried out in accordance with the terms of the
agreement mentioned in the last annual report.
TRAMWAYS.
The North Metropolitan Tramway Company gave notice of a Bill
to extend the Tramway from Hackney Road to White Lion Street,
Norton Folgate. The Metropolitan Board refused its consent and all
Tramway extensions were struck out of the Bill.
The amount which the Tramway Company has paid the Vestry for
pavements taken by them was, to Lady-day last, £4259; since then
£1500 has been paid for Hackney Road, and about £1500 will be
received when the New North Road line is commenced.
RAILWAYS, &c.
The only Railway Bill affecting the parish this Session was one
promoted by the London and North Western Railway Company which
inter alia authorises the purchase by the Company of the site of the
Chartered Gas Works in Worship Street, but the Vestry obtained
through the Metropolitan Board, a clause giving the Vestry power to
purchase a portion of the same for the widening of Worship Street, at
the value of vacant land. The Vestry is in communication with the
Metropolitan Board upon the question of effecting this Improvement.*
THE PROPOSED MORTUARY.
A preliminary agreement has been made between the Vestry and
tho North London Railway for the exchange of land, by which a
suitable site for a Mortuary will be placed at the command of the Vestry.
It is situate in William Street, Curtain Road, thoroughly screened from
observation, and altogether free from the objections which hitherto have
made the provision of a Mortuary in the Parish next to impossible.
• The Metropolitan Board has since agreed to effect this improvement.