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Horse-Shoe Alley
Hyde Road
Kingsland Road (portions of)
Laburnam Street
* Mintern Street
Rushton Street
Wenlock Street
White Cross Place
* Ordered by the Vestry to be carried out as required.
Four masons on average and their labourers were employed in
repairing the footways (including the repaving of Brunswick
Street, &c.) and over trenches opened by the Gas and Water
Companies; their wages for the year amounted to £525 16s. 3½d.
The Companies contributed £86 4s. 8d. for labour, and £110 19s. 2d.
for material required in the said repairs. Other contributions to
paving amounted to the sum of £246 8s. 5d., most of which was
due and paid to the Contractors.
The Victoria Stone Company supplied 600 superficial feet of
their patent stone for use in repairing the footways, at a cost of
£17 10s. 0d., and the Contractor supplied 13,793 superficial feet
of new tooled York paving, at a cost of £475 13s. 2d. for the
same purpose.
One man was employed during a portion of his time in the
Vestry's yard dressing and squaring old stone for re-use, and at
other jobbing work; his wages for the time so occupied amounted
to £50 18s. 9d.
The following quantity of old stone in addition was redressed
by piece-work at Laburnum Street and in the yard at the cost
stated—
439 yards super Granites £37 15 4
560 feet run Curb 10 10 0
The sum of £4 13s. 0d. was received for cost of cutting coal
plates into pavement, and paid into the Treasurer's Account.
The sum of £62 3s. 6d. was expended in wages for rearranging
and fixing lamp columns during the year, under the Lighting
Inspector's superintendence.