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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/41946-0.txt b/41946-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6e9508 --- /dev/null +++ b/41946-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,758 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Report of the Several Works Connected with +the Draining, Paving & Lighting the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts, +Kensington, 1856, by James Broadbridge + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Report of the Several Works Connected with the Draining, Paving & Lighting the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 1856 + + +Author: James Broadbridge + + + +Release Date: January 29, 2013 [eBook #41946] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REPORT OF THE SEVERAL WORKS +CONNECTED WITH THE DRAINING, PAVING & LIGHTING THE PARISH OF SAINT MARY +ABBOTTS, KENSINGTON, 1856*** + + +Transcribed from the 1857 W. Brickhill edition by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Kensington and +Chelsea Libraries for allowing their copy to be used for this transcription. + + + + + + REPORT + OF THE + SEVERAL WORKS CONNECTED WITH THE + DRAINING, PAVING & LIGHTING + THE + PARISH OF SAINT MARY ABBOTTS, KENSINGTON, + 1856. + + + * * * * * + + * * * * * + + BY JAMES BROADBRIDGE, + Surveyor. + + * * * * * + + * * * * * + + PRINTED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE VESTRY OF KENSINGTON. + + * * * * * + + BY W. BRICKHILL, STEAM MACHINE PRINTER, KENSINGTON AND WALWORTH ROADS. + + * * * * * + + 1857. + + + + +METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT, +18 & 19 _Vic._, _Cap._ 120. + + + * * * * * + +GENTLEMEN, + +IN laying before you a Statement, or Annual Report, of the various +matters in my department, and works executed under my supervision, I +would be allowed to state, that the parish of Kensington having been +regulated since 1851, by the Kensington Improvement Act, passed in that +year, has not been so substantially benefitted by the present Act, as +have many other of the metropolitan parishes. + +During the four to five years the said Act was in operation, a vast +number of improvements were effected, such as repairing footways, which +were in a bad and dilapidated condition, and paving others which were not +then paved. A total sum in this item was expended to the amount of £9024 +5s. 9d. + +The sanitary state of the Parish was greatly improved by the properly +scavengering and repairing roads, which had been neglected for many +years. A large amount of material was used, and I am happy to state, +that during the term before mentioned, I was enabled to put these Roads +into a good trafficable condition. + +The Act consolidated the various Lighting Districts then existing under +the 3rd & 4th Will. 4, Cap. 90, and enabled the Commissioners to supply +between two to three hundred additional lamps, and so better regulate and +diffuse the lighting over the whole parish. + +Many new streets were paved and repaired by the owners, and others made +up under the 27th section, all of which were taken to by the +Commissioners. + + * * * * * + +Under the provisions of the present Act, the whole of the management of +the sewerage and drainage of the parish (the main lines excepted), +together with certain regulations as to buildings, have been imposed upon +the vestry; and I now endeavour, as briefly as possible, to describe the +general manner by which this parish is drained, and to give an epitome of +the general works done since the passing of the said Act. + + * * * * * + +THE SEWERAGE OF THIS PARISH IS RECEIVED INTO FOUR MAIN LINES; viz.: the +Counter Creek, the Church-street Sewer, the Queen-street Sewer, and +Smith-street Sewer; of these, the Counter Creek is of the most +importance, as it to a great extent serves to receive the various minor +sewers. This sewer enters two portions of the parish, one division at +its northern, and the other at its eastern side. At the extreme northern +boundary, at Kensal Green, it has three distinct branches, western, +central and eastern, flowing south and westerly, having two branches on +the east and one on the west. + +The branch on the west is an open stream, passes as a brick sewer under +the Canal and the Great Western Railway, where it again appears as an +open ditch, and continues along on the verge of the Parish, there it +crosses into the Latimer Road out of the Parish Boundaries,—at this point +it is a brick sewer. + +The central branch commences at the front of the Kensal Green Cemetery, +proceeds as a Brick Sewer under the Canal and Railway, when it appears as +an open ditch running southerly to the Walmer Road. The eastern branch +enters this parish from Kensal New Town at the Canal Bridge as a brick +sewer, then ceases as a covered sewer, and proceeds as an open ditch, +with brick invert to its junction with the central branch,—from this +point the central and eastern branches combine as one stream to the +Bramley Road, and continue as a brick sewer, 6 ft. by 4 ft., at the west +side of St. James’ Square, Norlands: here the western branch returns from +Hammersmith parish, and forms junction with the above and central line, +and continues as one sewer, 6 ft. by 4ft., along St. Ann’s Road, across +Royal Crescent, under the Uxbridge Road, along by the western side of +Addison Road, across the Western Road, continuing along Warwick Road, +receiving at Pembroke Road the eastern branch, continuing into and across +the Old Brompton Road, along the east side of Brompton Cemetery to the +limits of the parish in the Fulham Road. + + * * * * * + +The eastern division of the Counter Creek enters the parish from +Paddington at the north end of Palace Gardens, there passes into St. +Margaret’s, Westminster, and again returns into Kensington at the +Kensington Road, by the North end of Young Street, and proceeds +south-westerly through Kensington Square, east side, along south end to +the Workhouse, continuing to and along Pembroke Road, to its junction +with the principal line in the Warwick Road. + + * * * * * + +Into the western branch of the Counter Creek are carried by various +drains the surface drainage of the meadow land, extending from Kensal +Green to the boundaries of the parish—east and west, up to the Lancaster +Road; at this point commence the sewers which have been constructed for +the drainage of the neighbourhood of Notting Hill, Norlands, and +Westbourne Grove, all of which have their outlets into the Counter Creek, +passing over the Uxbridge Road. North of Kensington Road, east and west, +the drainage is to the Counters Creek. On the south side of the +Kensington Road including all such portions of Kensington New Town, on +the west side of Victoria Road, extending to the Pembroke Road, the +outlet of the sewers is also into the Counters Creek. + + * * * * * + +The area of the parish extending south from its northern boundaries at +Kensal Green, east and west to the Western Road, and from thence all the +southern and western portion, including Kensington New Town are drained +into the Counters Creek. This portion of the parish includes the highest +and lowest land, being 126 ft. at the south of Notting Hill Square, and +17ft. at St. Mark’s Road—ordnance datum. + + * * * * * + +THE CHURCH STREET SEWER, commences in the Gloucester Road, opposite +Canning Place, continues along the Gloucester Road, receiving the +Drainage from Victoria Grove, Gore Road, and adjacent Streets, proceeds +by and past Hereford Square to the termination of the Gloucester Road, +into the Old Brompton Road, turns eastward, receives the Sewers from +Gloucester Grove East and West, continues southerly down Selwood Lane +unto the limits of the parish in the Fulham Road. + + * * * * * + +This Sewer is carried through a portion of the parish, the land of which +has been till recently under culture as Market Gardens. The newly-formed +roads here of the Royal Exhibition Commissioners Mr. Jackson and others +have given an impulse to building in this locality to which this Sewer +will be an important outlet for the drainage. + + * * * * * + +THE QUEEN STREET SEWER, commences on the east side of the Gloucester +Road, Kensington, proceeds southerly in an irregular form, through the +land belonging to the Royal Exhibition Commissioners—forms a junction +with a branch from Park Lane, continues in an irregular and uneven course +into Cromwell Lane, and then westerly into the Old Brompton Road, thence +south easterly down Pelham Road, into Pelham Place, where it receives the +drainage from Alfred Place West, Thurloe Square, and South Street—from +Pelham Place it is directed westerly into Pelham Crescent, and thence +westward along Fulham Road, receiving at Sydney Place, the partial +drainage of Onslow Square, and then it proceeds to its outlet from the +parish by Sydney Street. + + * * * * * + +THE SMITH STREET SEWER, commences at the eastern limit of Brompton Road, +proceeds westward along the Brompton Road into the Fulham Road, and +passes from the parish at Keppell Street. This Sewer is the outlet for +the adjacent Sewers on the North side of the Brompton Road; and of Grove +Place, Michael’s Grove, and Brompton Crescent, on the South Side. + + * * * * * + +A portion of the Kensington branch of the Counter Creek sewer, taking the +drainage from Notting-hill, east of the Turnpike-gate, Uxbridge, and +other streets and places in that locality, passing through a part of St. +Margaret’s, Westminster, to Young-street, receiving the drainage from +several streets and places in the town proper, and also the whole of the +drainage from Kensington New-town. At the Workhouse the sewer is 5 ft. 6 +in. by 3 ft. 6 in., and here terminates; the sewage matter, being +conveyed from thence along the Pembroke-road, by an 18 in. glazed +stoneware pipe, which also receives the drainage of the Pembroke-road and +Hutchinson’s estate. + +In consequence of the difference in size of sewers, as here marked out, +the basements of a vast number of houses in the New-town and other places +have been flooded from time to time, and serious inconveniences have in +consequence arisen to the ratepayers in those localities. + +It is worthy of remark, that after representations made by the vestry to +the General Board in August last, they directed a sewer of equal size, +viz.: 5ft. 6in. by 3ft. 6in. to be substituted for the 18 in. stoneware +pipe, which will effectually remedy the very serious evil pointed out. + + * * * * * + +The total lengths of sewers in this parish, under the immediate direction +of the vestry, are as follows: + +Brick Sewers 27¾ miles. +Pipe Sewers 7⅙ ,, +Open Sewers 1¾ ,, + +The open sewers are not in closely populated districts, but chiefly in +that portion of the parish at present under cultivation as grass land or +market gardens. + +The VESTRY have lowered the crown of sewer in New-street, to a length of +320-ft., have reconstructed a length of 42-ft. 2-in., by 2-ft. 6-in. +sewer in Charles’-mews; have laid down a length of 115 ft. of pipe sewer +in King-street; and 140-ft. of 12-in. pipe in Sloane-place, in lieu of +the old dilapidated brick drain. These Sewers have enabled owners to +drain their several premises. + + * * * * * + +There have been 45 new Gulleys constructed for carrying off the surface +water from the roads, and many altered, repaired, and cleaned. Air +shafts have been formed for carrying off the poisonous Gases from the +Sewers; and many Gulleys have been trapped. + + * * * * * + +The flushers have cleansed about 8 miles 3482-ft. of brick sewer, +removing deposits therein, varying from 6 inches to 2-ft. which deposits +have been carted away, and have also flushed with water from time to time +pipe sewers to an extent of 7½ miles. + + * * * * * + +232 Applications have been made and granted to drain houses and premises +both voluntarily and in consequence of notices issued by the vestry, and +in all cases where cesspools have existed they have been filled in or +broken up. + +The following Sewers have been constructed by owners of property, in the +various under-mentioned places, viz.: + +670-ft. 2-ft. barrel sewer in the Campden-hill Road. +1400-ft. 4-ft. 6-in. by 2-ft. 6-in., 1 brick—with brick invert, in +cement, in the Holland-road. +450-ft. 3-ft. by 2-ft. 6-in., ½ brick—in cement, with stoneware invert +in Addison-crescent. +59-ft. 12-in. pipe in Johnson-street, Notting-hill. +400-ft. 3-ft. by 2-ft., in an intended road, Old Brompton. +35-ft. 3-ft. 9-in. by 2-ft. 6-in., High-street, Notting-hill. +3000-ft. 3-ft. by 2-ft., on the Phillimore Estate. +And 216-ft. of 12-in. pipe, in Brompton-road, opposite York-cottages, +has also been completed. + + * * * * * + +These works have been done under the personal inspection of Mr. Perkins, +your Clerk of the Works, appointed for that purpose. + + + + +REPAIRS OF THE STREETS & THOROUGHFARES, & PAVING WORKS GENERALLY. + + +I have to call the special attention of the vestry to the subject of the +repairs of the Roads in this parish, which involves a very large annual +outlay, and requires the greatest amount of care, both as regards the +quantity and quality of the materials, and also as to the proper season +for their application. + +My past experience has taught me that this portion of my duty requires +constant supervision and attention. I have computed the length of the +roads in this parish, exclusive of the turnpike roads, at about 53 miles, +and I am happy to state, allowing for the new roads adopted by the +parish, the last annual outlay has been less in comparison to the +previous years, this may be accounted for by the fact of the roads having +become much harder, from regular scavengering, and the better form which +allows the surface water to drain into the channels. + + * * * * * + +The roads may be classed in three sections, viz.: those of great traffic, +which are repaired with granite; those having less traffic, which are +repaired with flints; and bye roads and squares of little traffic, which +are repaired with gravel. I have considered opinions from time to time +expressed by the Paving Committee as to the more general use of granite +for the roads, and shall lose no opportunity in carrying out their wishes +wherever I can judiciously do so. + +I have found many beneficial results, and much saving from the constant +employment of a mason ordered by the Paving Committee to be added to the +staff of workmen, for the purpose of attending to the repairs of the +trenches opened or disturbed by the different gas and water companies. + + * * * * * + +The following is a list of some of the principal footways, which have +been paved, viz.: St. John’s Church, Aubrey Chapel, Gloucester Road, Edge +Terrace, and Vine Place, Ladbroke Road, Old Norland Road, Kensington +Church, Yard, Queen’s Road, Northern, The Mall, St. Peter’s Church, High +Row, Silver Street, Portobello Terrace, Clifton Terrace, together with +several other minor works, also the laying crossings, pitching cab +stands, and general repairs. + + * * * * * + +The following are streets which have been paved and repaired at the +expense of the owners, and adopted by the Vestry: Kensington Park Road +North, Ovington Square, Ovington Terrace, St. John’s Terrace, Portland +Road North, Clarendon Place, Elgin Crescent, Dartmoor Street, Stanley +Gardens, Stanley Crescent, Lansdown Road North, Chepstow Villas West, +Ladbroke Terrace, Ladbroke Road, Westbourne Grove West. + + + + +LIGHTING. + + +The Parish is at present supplied with Gas under contracts from the +Western Gas Company, the Imperial Gas Company, and the London Gas +Company. + +Great attention has been given by the Committee, in the fixing new lamps, +and including the old ones there are now upwards of 1,068 fairly and +judiciously spread over the whole parish. Great facility has been +afforded by numbering the lamps, both in the communication with the Gas +Companies, and also as to their general repairs, and lighting. + + * * * * * + +I have endeavoured, in this my first Annual Report to draw your attention +to the works generally under your control, and executed under the powers +vested in you by the “Metropolis Local Management Act,” and I take this +opportunity of tendering my thanks for the support I have ever received +from you in the discharge of the important duties intrusted to me. + + I have the honor to remain, + Gentlemen, + Your obedient Servant, + JAMES BROADBRIDGE, + SURVEYOR. + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REPORT OF THE SEVERAL WORKS +CONNECTED WITH THE DRAINING, PAVING & LIGHTING THE PARISH OF SAINT MARY +ABBOTTS, KENSINGTON, 1856*** + + +******* This file should be named 41946-0.txt or 41946-0.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/1/9/4/41946 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Report of the Several Works Connected with the Draining, Paving & Lighting the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 1856 + + +Author: James Broadbridge + + + +Release Date: January 29, 2013 [eBook #41946] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REPORT OF THE SEVERAL WORKS +CONNECTED WITH THE DRAINING, PAVING & LIGHTING THE PARISH OF SAINT MARY +ABBOTTS, KENSINGTON, 1856*** +</pre> +<p>Transcribed from the 1857 W. Brickhill edition by David Price, +email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Kensington +and Chelsea Libraries for allowing their copy to be used for +this transcription.</p> +<h1>REPORT<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">OF THE</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">SEVERAL WORKS CONNECTED WITH THE</span><br +/> +DRAINING, PAVING & LIGHTING<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">THE</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">PARISH OF SAINT MARY ABBOTTS, +KENSINGTON,</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">1856.</span></h1> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">By</span> JAMES +BROADBRIDGE,<br /> +Surveyor.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">PRINTED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE +VESTRY OF KENSINGTON.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY W. +BRICKHILL, STEAM MACHINE PRINTER, KENSINGTON AND WALWORTH +ROADS.</span></p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">1857.</p> +<h2><a name="page3"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +3</span>METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT,<br /> +18 & 19 <i>Vic.</i>, <i>Cap.</i> 120.</h2> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">Gentlemen</span>,</p> +<p><span class="smcap">In</span> laying before you a Statement, +or Annual Report, of the various matters in my department, and +works executed under my supervision, I would be allowed to state, +that the parish of Kensington having been regulated since 1851, +by the Kensington Improvement Act, passed in that year, has not +been so substantially benefitted by the present Act, as have many +other of the metropolitan parishes.</p> +<p>During the four to five years the said Act was in operation, a +vast number of improvements were effected, such as repairing +footways, which were in a bad and dilapidated condition, and +paving others which were not then paved. A total sum in +this item was expended to the amount of £9024 5s. 9d.</p> +<p>The sanitary state of the Parish was greatly improved by the +properly scavengering and repairing roads, which had been +neglected for many years. A large amount of material was +used, and I am happy to state, that during the term before +mentioned, I was enabled to put these Roads into a good +trafficable condition.</p> +<p><a name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span>The Act +consolidated the various Lighting Districts then existing under +the 3rd & 4th Will. 4, Cap. 90, and enabled the Commissioners +to supply between two to three hundred additional lamps, and so +better regulate and diffuse the lighting over the whole +parish.</p> +<p>Many new streets were paved and repaired by the owners, and +others made up under the 27th section, all of which were taken to +by the Commissioners.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>Under the provisions of the present Act, the whole of the +management of the sewerage and drainage of the parish (the main +lines excepted), together with certain regulations as to +buildings, have been imposed upon the vestry; and I now +endeavour, as briefly as possible, to describe the general manner +by which this parish is drained, and to give an epitome of the +general works done since the passing of the said Act.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">The Sewerage of this Parish is Received +into Four Main Lines</span>; viz.: the Counter Creek, the +Church-street Sewer, the Queen-street Sewer, and Smith-street +Sewer; of these, the Counter Creek is of the most importance, as +it to a great extent serves to receive the various minor +sewers. This sewer enters two portions of the parish, one +division at its northern, and the other at its eastern +side. At the extreme northern boundary, at Kensal Green, it +has three distinct branches, western, central and eastern, +flowing south and westerly, having two branches on the east and +one on the west.</p> +<p>The branch on the west is an open stream, passes as a brick +sewer under the Canal and the Great Western Railway, where it +again appears as an open ditch, and continues along on the verge +of the Parish, there it crosses into the Latimer Road out of the +Parish Boundaries,—at this point it is a brick sewer.</p> +<p><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 5</span>The +central branch commences at the front of the Kensal Green +Cemetery, proceeds as a Brick Sewer under the Canal and Railway, +when it appears as an open ditch running southerly to the Walmer +Road. The eastern branch enters this parish from Kensal New +Town at the Canal Bridge as a brick sewer, then ceases as a +covered sewer, and proceeds as an open ditch, with brick invert +to its junction with the central branch,—from this point +the central and eastern branches combine as one stream to the +Bramley Road, and continue as a brick sewer, 6 ft. by 4 ft., at +the west side of St. James’ Square, Norlands: here the +western branch returns from Hammersmith parish, and forms +junction with the above and central line, and continues as one +sewer, 6 ft. by 4ft., along St. Ann’s Road, across Royal +Crescent, under the Uxbridge Road, along by the western side of +Addison Road, across the Western Road, continuing along Warwick +Road, receiving at Pembroke Road the eastern branch, continuing +into and across the Old Brompton Road, along the east side of +Brompton Cemetery to the limits of the parish in the Fulham +Road.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The eastern division of the Counter Creek enters the parish +from Paddington at the north end of Palace Gardens, there passes +into St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and again returns into +Kensington at the Kensington Road, by the North end of Young +Street, and proceeds south-westerly through Kensington Square, +east side, along south end to the Workhouse, continuing to and +along Pembroke Road, to its junction with the principal line in +the Warwick Road.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Into the western branch of the Counter Creek are carried by +various drains the surface drainage of the meadow land, extending +from Kensal Green to the boundaries of the parish—east and +west, up to the Lancaster Road; at this point commence the sewers +which have been constructed for the drainage of the neighbourhood +of Notting Hill, <a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>Norlands, and Westbourne Grove, all of which have their +outlets into the Counter Creek, passing over the Uxbridge +Road. North of Kensington Road, east and west, the drainage +is to the Counters Creek. On the south side of the +Kensington Road including all such portions of Kensington New +Town, on the west side of Victoria Road, extending to the +Pembroke Road, the outlet of the sewers is also into the Counters +Creek.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The area of the parish extending south from its northern +boundaries at Kensal Green, east and west to the Western Road, +and from thence all the southern and western portion, including +Kensington New Town are drained into the Counters Creek. +This portion of the parish includes the highest and lowest land, +being 126 ft. at the south of Notting Hill Square, and 17ft. at +St. Mark’s Road—ordnance datum.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">The Church Street Sewer</span>, commences +in the Gloucester Road, opposite Canning Place, continues along +the Gloucester Road, receiving the Drainage from Victoria Grove, +Gore Road, and adjacent Streets, proceeds by and past Hereford +Square to the termination of the Gloucester Road, into the Old +Brompton Road, turns eastward, receives the Sewers from +Gloucester Grove East and West, continues southerly down Selwood +Lane unto the limits of the parish in the Fulham Road.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>This Sewer is carried through a portion of the parish, the +land of which has been till recently under culture as Market +Gardens. The newly-formed roads here of the Royal +Exhibition Commissioners <a name="page7"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 7</span>Mr. Jackson and others have given an +impulse to building in this locality to which this Sewer will be +an important outlet for the drainage.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">The Queen Street Sewer</span>, commences +on the east side of the Gloucester Road, Kensington, proceeds +southerly in an irregular form, through the land belonging to the +Royal Exhibition Commissioners—forms a junction with a +branch from Park Lane, continues in an irregular and uneven +course into Cromwell Lane, and then westerly into the Old +Brompton Road, thence south easterly down Pelham Road, into +Pelham Place, where it receives the drainage from Alfred Place +West, Thurloe Square, and South Street—from Pelham Place it +is directed westerly into Pelham Crescent, and thence westward +along Fulham Road, receiving at Sydney Place, the partial +drainage of Onslow Square, and then it proceeds to its outlet +from the parish by Sydney Street.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">The Smith Street Sewer</span>, commences +at the eastern limit of Brompton Road, proceeds westward along +the Brompton Road into the Fulham Road, and passes from the +parish at Keppell Street. This Sewer is the outlet for the +adjacent Sewers on the North side of the Brompton Road; and of +Grove Place, Michael’s Grove, and Brompton Crescent, on the +South Side.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>A portion of the Kensington branch of the Counter Creek sewer, +taking the drainage from Notting-hill, east of the Turnpike-gate, +Uxbridge, and other streets and places in that locality, passing +through a part of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, to +Young-street, receiving the drainage from several streets and +places in the town <a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>proper, and also the whole of the drainage from +Kensington New-town. At the Workhouse the sewer is 5 ft. 6 +in. by 3 ft. 6 in., and here terminates; the sewage matter, being +conveyed from thence along the Pembroke-road, by an 18 in. glazed +stoneware pipe, which also receives the drainage of the +Pembroke-road and Hutchinson’s estate.</p> +<p>In consequence of the difference in size of sewers, as here +marked out, the basements of a vast number of houses in the +New-town and other places have been flooded from time to time, +and serious inconveniences have in consequence arisen to the +ratepayers in those localities.</p> +<p>It is worthy of remark, that after representations made by the +vestry to the General Board in August last, they directed a sewer +of equal size, viz.: 5ft. 6in. by 3ft. 6in. to be substituted for +the 18 in. stoneware pipe, which will effectually remedy the very +serious evil pointed out.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>The total lengths of sewers in this parish, under the +immediate direction of the vestry, are as follows:</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Brick Sewers</p> +</td> +<td><p>27¾ miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Pipe Sewers</p> +</td> +<td><p>7⅙ ,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Open Sewers</p> +</td> +<td><p>1¾ ,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The open sewers are not in closely populated districts, but +chiefly in that portion of the parish at present under +cultivation as grass land or market gardens.</p> +<p><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 9</span>The <span +class="smcap">Vestry</span> have lowered the crown of sewer in +New-street, to a length of 320-ft., have reconstructed a length +of 42-ft. 2-in., by 2-ft. 6-in. sewer in Charles’-mews; +have laid down a length of 115 ft. of pipe sewer in King-street; +and 140-ft. of 12-in. pipe in Sloane-place, in lieu of the old +dilapidated brick drain. These Sewers have enabled owners +to drain their several premises.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>There have been 45 new Gulleys constructed for carrying off +the surface water from the roads, and many altered, repaired, and +cleaned. Air shafts have been formed for carrying off the +poisonous Gases from the Sewers; and many Gulleys have been +trapped.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The flushers have cleansed about 8 miles 3482-ft. of brick +sewer, removing deposits therein, varying from 6 inches to 2-ft. +which deposits have been carted away, and have also flushed with +water from time to time pipe sewers to an extent of 7½ +miles.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>232 Applications have been made and granted to drain houses +and premises both voluntarily and in consequence of notices +issued by the vestry, and in all cases where cesspools have +existed they have been filled in or broken up.</p> +<p>The following Sewers have been constructed by owners of +property, in the various under-mentioned places, viz.:</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>670-ft. 2-ft. barrel sewer in the Campden-hill Road.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>1400-ft. 4-ft. 6-in. by 2-ft. 6-in., 1 brick—with +brick invert, in cement, in the Holland-road.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>450-ft. 3-ft. by 2-ft. 6-in., ½ brick—in +cement, with stoneware invert in Addison-crescent.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>59-ft. 12-in. pipe in Johnson-street, Notting-hill.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>400-ft. 3-ft. by 2-ft., in an intended road, Old +Brompton.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>35-ft. 3-ft. 9-in. by 2-ft. 6-in., High-street, +Notting-hill.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>3000-ft. 3-ft. by 2-ft., on the Phillimore Estate.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>And 216-ft. of 12-in. pipe, in Brompton-road, opposite +York-cottages, has also been completed.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>These works have been done under the personal inspection of +Mr. Perkins, your Clerk of the Works, appointed for that +purpose.</p> +<h2>REPAIRS OF THE STREETS & THOROUGHFARES, & PAVING +WORKS GENERALLY.</h2> +<p>I have to call the special attention of the vestry to the +subject of the repairs of the Roads in this parish, which +involves a very large annual outlay, and requires the greatest +amount of care, both as regards the quantity and quality of the +materials, and also as to the proper season for their +application.</p> +<p>My past experience has taught me that this portion of my duty +requires constant supervision and attention. I have +computed the length of the roads in this parish, exclusive of the +turnpike roads, at about 53 miles, and I am happy to state, +allowing for the new roads adopted by the parish, the last annual +outlay has been less in comparison to the previous years, this +may be accounted for by the fact of the <a +name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>roads having +become much harder, from regular scavengering, and the better +form which allows the surface water to drain into the +channels.</p> +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The roads may be classed in three sections, viz.: those of +great traffic, which are repaired with granite; those having less +traffic, which are repaired with flints; and bye roads and +squares of little traffic, which are repaired with gravel. +I have considered opinions from time to time expressed by the +Paving Committee as to the more general use of granite for the +roads, and shall lose no opportunity in carrying out their wishes +wherever I can judiciously do so.</p> +<p>I have found many beneficial results, and much saving from the +constant employment of a mason ordered by the Paving Committee to +be added to the staff of workmen, for the purpose of attending to +the repairs of the trenches opened or disturbed by the different +gas and water companies.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>The following is a list of some of the principal footways, +which have been paved, viz.: St. John’s Church, Aubrey +Chapel, Gloucester Road, Edge Terrace, and Vine Place, Ladbroke +Road, Old Norland Road, Kensington Church, Yard, Queen’s +Road, Northern, The Mall, St. Peter’s Church, High Row, +Silver Street, Portobello Terrace, Clifton Terrace, together with +several other minor works, also the laying crossings, pitching +cab stands, and general repairs.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>The following are streets which have been paved and repaired +at the expense of the owners, and adopted by the Vestry: +Kensington Park Road North, Ovington Square, Ovington Terrace, +St. John’s Terrace, <a name="page12"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 12</span>Portland Road North, Clarendon Place, +Elgin Crescent, Dartmoor Street, Stanley Gardens, Stanley +Crescent, Lansdown Road North, Chepstow Villas West, Ladbroke +Terrace, Ladbroke Road, Westbourne Grove West.</p> +<h2>LIGHTING.</h2> +<p>The Parish is at present supplied with Gas under contracts +from the Western Gas Company, the Imperial Gas Company, and the +London Gas Company.</p> +<p>Great attention has been given by the Committee, in the fixing +new lamps, and including the old ones there are now upwards of +1,068 fairly and judiciously spread over the whole parish. +Great facility has been afforded by numbering the lamps, both in +the communication with the Gas Companies, and also as to their +general repairs, and lighting.</p> +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>I have endeavoured, in this my first Annual Report to draw +your attention to the works generally under your control, and +executed under the powers vested in you by the “Metropolis +Local Management Act,” and I take this opportunity of +tendering my thanks for the support I have ever received from you +in the discharge of the important duties intrusted to me.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">I have the honor to remain,<br /> +Gentlemen,<br /> +Your obedient Servant,<br /> +JAMES BROADBRIDGE,<br /> +<span class="smcap">Surveyor</span>.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK REPORT OF THE SEVERAL WORKS +CONNECTED WITH THE DRAINING, PAVING & LIGHTING THE PARISH OF SAINT MARY +ABBOTTS, KENSINGTON, 1856***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 41946-h.htm or 41946-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/1/9/4/41946 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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