The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

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England on one side, and the Commercial Bank o
Liverpool and a pile of costlysvarehouses on the other

The new street, however, will st

art from North

John-street, opposite to the end of Cook-street, and
will take down the whole of the warehouses on the

south side of Temple-court, and a portion of the

frontage of those on the north side up to
Temple-lane. It will also take a portion of the
backs of the warehouses on the north side of Mat-
thew-street. It will proceed from Temple-lane,
leaving the Fire-station on the south, and taking
down the warehouses at the corner of Temple-place,
cross the bottom of Stanley-street, Derby-street,
Cumberland-street, Sir Thomas's-buildings, Peter-
street, and Whitechapel, between the ends of Peter-
street and Croshall-street. It proceeds thence over
the greater portion of Charles-street, to Marble-
street, taking away about half of the block of build-
ings between that street and Whitechapel. It then
goes across the corner of Hood-street, the back
of the Fish-hall, and of the shops fronting the north
end of St. John's Market, across Queen's-square,
takes off the top corner of the shops in Roe-street,
adjoining the Amphitheatre, and across the corner
waste-land adjoining the south side of the Fish-
Market to the Haymarket. A mass of property of
the very lowest description will be removed by the
formation of this great thoroughfare, especially that
from Sir Thomas's-buildings to Crosshall-street.
It was further proposed that the whole block of
buildings between Sir Thomas's-buildings, Dale-
street, Crosshall-street and the proposed new street
leading to St. George's-hall, should be purchased
by the Corporatiou—a portion of it, consisting of
the site of the Saracen's Head Hotel in Dale-street
being already their property; and that the new
Magistrates' Courts, Bridewell, and Offices for the
Police, Borough Engineer, and Offices of the Health
Committee and Water Committee should be erected
thereon. "By this arrangement," remarks Mr.
Holine, "the whole of the business might be concen-
trated, and besides the public convenience resulting
therefrom, a great saving might be effected."
It was argued by Mr. HOLME, as it was by our-
selves a month ago, that the Corporation would not
be put to so large an expense as at first would

seem necessary to carry out such an extensive im-
provement. The property required might be pur-
chased at a reasonable rate ; and the Corpor_ition
would have placed in their hands for sale a quantity
of very valuable frontage land, which would well
nigh repay them for the entire cost.
The next proposition is to form a convenient
access to the centre of the town, from Low-hill,
Everton, and Edge-hill ; and this it is proposed to
effect by throwing a high level bridge across Byrom-
street, at the bottom of Shaw's brow. In con-
nexion with this, a road would be formed from
Commutation-row, crossing Christian-street, Clare-
street, and St. Anne-street diagonally, and entering
Great Homer-street at its junction

ith Fox-street

This would make one of the best p
nications between Kirkdale, I,Valtc

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and the

centre of the town.

The next important proposition is to relieve 0
hall-street from the pressure of its pr
traffic, and to obviate the necessity for the carting
from the timber and coal-yards passing the four
turns round the Exchange-buildings, at the fre-
quent risk of life and limb, by the formation of a
new street, 22 yards wide, commencing from the
Dale-street end of North John-street, and termi-
nating near the Borough gaol. This street will

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take down nearly the whole of Leather-lane and
Tempest-hey, between Dale-street and Tithebarn-
street. It will proceed hence in a slightly curving
course, to accommodate itself to the levels of the
railway and the canal, passing by the east end of

St. Paul's Church, and terminating at the south
corner of the Borough gaol.

The above are the principal main streets proposed
to be formed. There are, however, numerous im-
provements of streets, and purchases of property
for public purposes, suggested in the Improvement
Committee's Report. Amongst the most prominent
of these are the proposition to widen Church.street,
and bring it more into a line with Lord-street, by
taking away a portion of the buildings between the
end of Paradise-street and Church-alley. This will
render necessary the removal of a small portion of
the frontage of St. Peter's Church-yard ; and the
property at the south-east corner of Church-alley
is to be rounded off, so as to form a more conve-
nient thoroughfare between Church-street and
School-lane. Hardman-street is to be made of the
same uniform width with that part of it opposite
the Blind Asylum. The property at the bottom of
Water-street, and in front of St. George's Dock-
gate, is recommended to be purchased, so as to
improve that great thoroughfare. There is not a
more valuable portion of the recommendations than
this, which will be especially grateful to the inha-
bitants of Cheshire, and persons having business
along our dock quays, who will be relieved, in pass-
ing from the corner of Water-street to the west side
of St. Nicholas's Church, from the constant dread
of a barrel of flour, or a sack of wheat, falling upon
their heads. By the bye, one of the greatest nui-
sances in this town is the system of hoisting heavy
goods over the parapets of its streets. In Man-
chester an Improvement Act compelled all ware-
houses to have inside hoists.

Park-lane is to be widened from Canning-place
to Crosbie-street ; and it speaks little for the public
spirit of Liverpool that this has not been done long
ago, and a good approach formed from the park,
Aigburth, &c., to the centre of the town, instead
of the population, both on foot and in carriages,