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Old Street, opposite Town Hall—
Five years' maintenance of 418$ superficial yards of wood
pavement by North Metropolitan Tramways Co. 156 16 8
Curtain Road, from near Great Eastern Street to Old Street-
Old cubes taken up and carted to Reliance Wharf and
Flemming Street Yard. Carriageway re-paved with
new 3×7 Guernsey granite pitchings, supplied, laid,
rammed, a portion of carriageway taken up, dressed,
and re-laid,and portion re-laid only, all on 6 in. concrete,
and grouted with lias lime; cutting on pitchings, &c. 1,871 17 6
East Road (on East side from Start Arms to Great Chart Street,
and West side from Mount Pleasant to 59, New North Road)—
Margins re-paved with new 3×7 Guernsey granite
pitchings; channels with new 4×7 Guernsey granite
pitchings, all on lias lime concrete and grouted; old
cubes carted to Vestry's Depot 1,152 19 0
Paved granite crossings (private) executed as follows:—
80, Haggerston Road *5 5 11
By Brewery, Wenlock Road and Edward Street *8 0 4
Bateman's Row *5 8 1
1a, Kay Street *4 3 6
Bateman's Row *9 6 1
Three paviors on an average and their labourers were employed in repairing
the paved roads, and over trenches opened by the gas and water companies and
Post Office Telegraphs; their wages for the year amounted to £627 19s. 6d., and
£9 13s. 3d. was paid for watchmen's wages. The companies contributed
£154 18s. l1d. for labour, use of tools, &c., and £127 15s. 2d. for material required
in the said repairs.
The contractor supplied 12 tons 16 cwt. of Guernsey granite cubes for use in
repairing the channels and carriageways, at a cost of £16 12s. 9d., and redressed
438 super yards of pitchings at the yard, at a cost of £40 2s. 7d.
There are about fifty-one miles of carriageway in the parish, fifteen being
paved, and the remaining portion constructed of macadam or flints.
* The whole or a portion repaid to the Vestry.