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7
ASSESSMENTS.
The Valuation List for the previous year amounted to
£641,204 Gross value, £517,897 Rateable value. For the present
year the amount is fixed at Gross value, £650,990; Rateable
value, £526,035 ; being an increase of £9,786 and £8,138
respectively.
RAILWAYS, TRAMWAYS, &c..
The only proposal relating to works of this character made to
Parliament in the Session commencing 1880, affecting this parish,
was one which projected a line of tramway from Shoreditch
High Street, through Bethnal Green Road, and thence eastwards.
So far as the parish of Shoreditch was concerned, it was a matter of
the extension of the tramway from the High Street through the
New Bethnal Green Road for about a distance of 200 yards. The
Company agreed with the Vestry in respect to this proposed
extension, to the same terms as had been previously settled for the
Shoreditch High Street. It now transpires that owing to
difficulties which have arisen as to terms in other parishes, the
Company has abandoned all projects for new works during the
present Session.
HARWAR STREET IMPROVEMENT.
In the report of the last year the following was stated:—
" The arrangements between the Vestry, the Drapers' Company,
and the Charity Commissioners, for the removal of Harwar's Almshouses,
in Kingsland Road, and the completing the thoroughfare
through Harwar Street, late Thomas Street, have progressed somewhat
slowly owing to some differences between the Company and
the Commissioners. These have now been settled and the order
will shortly be issued.
" The scheme to be sanctioned "will be the conversion of the
benefits of the Almshouses into twelve pensions,—six men, married
or single, and six women, single or widows, of £30 per year each.