[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster].

  • St. Margaret & St. John, Westminster (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1892
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    19 STREET IMPROVEMENTS. After negotiations extending over more than two years, the vestry were successful in carrying out the improvement at the corner of Caxton-street and Great Chapel-street, 1,067 feet super, in Caxton-street, and 615 feet in Great Chapel-street being added to the public way. The cost of the land was £3,000 (raised by a loan), and of making up the new footway and roadway £500, which, with an in stalment in repayment of the loan, was provided for in the current rates. An improvement in Greencoat-row and Cobourg-row was secured by an arrangement with Messrs. Tyrrell Lewis and Co. on behalf of the Army and Navy Co-operative and Auxiliary Societies, whereby the Vestry consented to the closing of St. Margaret's-passage in consideration of certain land in Cobourg-row being surrendered to the public use. A very desirable improvement at the north-east end of Great Peter-street engaged the attention of the Vestry's Works Committee, and although the matter had not been brought to a completion at the close of the year, it may be stated here that there is every likelihood of Great Peter street being widened by the setting back of Messrs. Burroughes and Watts' premises on the north side of the street; and that St. Ann's-street will in connection there with, be widened. The improvement will be effected by the exchange of certain land in St. Ann's-court and of other land in St. Ann's-street, acquired for the purpose of the exchange, and the cost is estimated to be £4,220, exclusive of the works. The Vestry were also occupied in the consideration of a proposed roadway across the site of the late Artillery brewery, so as to connect Victoria-street with Rochester