Report of the Several Works Connected with the Draining, Paving & Lighting the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts, Kensington, 1856

by James Broadbridge

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.