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which £229 2s. 9d. was paid by the Gas and Water Companies for
repairs of trenches.
CARRIAGEWAY PAVING.
The cost of paving works amounted to £9458 8s. 4d. for the
year, as follows :—
High Street, Shoreditch, (from Batemans Row to
Boundary)—re-paved with new 7x3 granite. .£3895 8 0
Elder Street—repaved with old stone 31 7 3
Paradise Street—repaved with old stone 50 1 2
Baldwin Street—repaved with old stone 11 13 10
Peerless Street—repaved with old stone 22 10 11
Boston Street (portion of)—repaved with old stone 39 1 1
King Street, Old Street—repaved with old stone 53 14 2
Boot Street—repaved with old stone 101 18 10
Charles Street, Bitfield Street—repaved with old stone 310 8
Batemans Roio—repaved with old stone 178 7 5
Chapel Street (portion of)—relaid 16 10 9
Holywell Row—relaid 90 16 4
F'insbury Market—repaved with old stone 363 8 7
Pownall Road (carriageway entrances)—paved with
new 4-inch pitchers 29 6 4
Finsbury Avenue—paved with new 4-inch pitchers 67 2 6
Murray Street (the whole of the carriageway) paved
with new 7x3 granites 3537 11 11
Queens Road Bridge—partly relaid and partly new 139 13 4
Edward Street, Kingsland Road—paved with old stone 202 15 5
Plough Yard (portion of)—repaved with old stone 27 18 9
Market Street—paved with old stone 100 3 10
Queen Street, Worship Street—repaved with old stone 34 9 4
Commercial Street—repaved with old stone 433 7 11
There are three paviers employed in the repairs of the paved
carriageways (the greater portion of the time of one is taken up in
repairing trenches), and their wages for the year was £469 5s. 4d.;
and the amount contributed by the Companies for the repairs of
trenches was £127 2s. 3d.
The length of the roads, streets, &c., in the parish, is about
fifty-one miles; nine miles being paved, and the remainder Mc Adam
and Ballast.