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asked for powers to widen the line running through Shoreditch to
the City for a short distance, viz. Plough Yard to Hearn Street.
Plough Yard was to be diverted. The Bridges over Skinner Street
and Primrose Street were to be widened. The Vestry asked that
Plough Yard should be widened, paved and sewered, at the
Company's expense, and failing to obtain this by negotiation,
opposed the Bill in Parliament. The Vestry in conjunction with
the Metropolitan Board obtained a widening of the street to be
substituted from a proposed width of about 18 to about 25 feet,
and by its own opposition secured an obligation on part of the
Company to pave and sewer Plough Yard to the Vestry's satisfaction,
and also for the improved lighting of Skinner Street and Primrose
Street.
Tramways.
The North Metropolitan Tramways Company introduced a
Bill to authorize the extension of the system through Great
Eastern Street, Commercial Street, and Bethnal Green Road. The
Vestry of Shoreditch offered no opposition, but the Local
Authorities of the other parishes, with the inhabitants, offered some
opposition to the Commercial Street and Betbnal Green Road
extensions, and in the end only the Great Eastern Street extension—
Old Street to Shoreditch—was sanctioned. This paragraph alludes
only to that part of the Tramways Company's scheme as it would
have affected this Parish.
THE TOWN HALL.
During the year the Large Hall has been let 126 times; the
Council Chamber 5 times; the Committee Rooms have been used
by Local Societies, mostly free of charges.
The receipts for letting Hall, Council Chamber, and Committee
Rooms were £397 17s. Od.
YESTRY AND COMMITTEE MEETINGS.