Transcribed from the 1857 W. Brickhill edition ,. Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Kensingtonand Chelsea Libraries for allowing their copy to be used forthis transcription.
By JAMESBROADBRIDGE,
Surveyor.
PRINTED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THEVESTRY OF KENSINGTON.
BY W.BRICKHILL, STEAM MACHINE PRINTER, KENSINGTON AND WALWORTHROADS.
1857.
Gentlemen,
In laying before you a Statement,or Annual Report, of the various matters in my department, andworks 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 notbeen so substantially benefitted by the present Act, as have manyother of the metropolitan parishes.
During the four to five years the said Act was in operation, avast number of improvements were effected, such as repairingfootways, which were in a bad and dilapidated condition, andpaving others which were not then paved. A total sum inthis item was expended to the amount of £9024 5s. 9d.
The sanitary state of the Parish was greatly improved by theproperly scavengering and repairing roads, which had beenneglected for many years. A large amount of material wasused, and I am happy to state, that during the term beforementioned, I was enabled to put these Roads into a goodtrafficable condition.
p. 4The Actconsolidated the various Lighting Districts then existing underthe 3rd & 4th Will. 4, Cap. 90, and enabled the Commissionersto supply between two to three hundred additional lamps, and sobetter regulate and diffuse the lighting over the wholeparish.
Many new streets were paved and repaired by the owners, andothers made up under the 27th section, all of which were taken toby the Commissioners.
Under the provisions of the present Act, the whole of themanagement of the sewerage and drainage of the parish (the mainlines excepted), together with certain regulations as tobuildings, have been imposed upon the vestry; and I nowendeavour, as briefly as possible, to describe the general mannerby which this parish is drained, and to give an epitome of thegeneral works done since the passing of the said Act.
The Sewerage of this Parish is Receivedinto Four Main Lines; viz.: the Counter Creek, theChurch-street Sewer, the Queen-street Sewer, and Smith-streetSewer; of these, the Counter Creek is of the most importance, asit to a great extent serves to receive the various minorsewers. This sewer enters two portions of the parish, onedivision at its northern, and the other at its easternside. At the extreme northern boundary, at Kensal Green, ithas three distinct branches, western, central and eastern,flowing south and westerly, having two branches on the east andone on the west.