New Road at Wallinger’s Walk. At the Council Meeting on April 7th, Coun. Hickes called attention to the advantages of the proposed new road on the west side of St. Mary’s burial ground to the top of St. Mary’s Terrace, which was estimated to cost £385, and towards which Mr. Macmurdo [the recent purchaser of Castledown House had offered £300, and other persons would subscribe the remainder, if Wallinger’s Walk were stopped up. The Roads committee reported that Lady Waldegrave positively refused permission for the old road by the Eft Pond [at the foot of the Lady’s Parlour mound] to remain open if the proposed new road were made; most of the Council also objected to the closing of the old road, as well as to the stopping up of Wallinger’s Walk. Mr Hickes’s proposal, therefore fell to the ground. More than forty years later, however, after much agitation, two new roads, commencing at the exact spot, were opened out to the West hill, but that was when an immense amount of new property rendered greater facility of approach absolutely necessary. Also, at the time this is written, Castledown House has changed hands, the grounds are being built upon, a new outlet effected, and Wallinger’s Walk widened.
The Water Supply - Cinque Ports Jurisdiction
The Water Supply. Also at the April meeting of the Council, a long discussion ensued on the question of the Water supply. Coun. Ginner, who was at all times the champion for a good supply of water, stated that the supply was getting into an alarming condition. Mr, Milne, who had been engaged to report upon such supply, was causing delay and treating the Board in an unsatisfactory manner. Mr. Rowe, if engaged, would not leave his home, and he (Coun. Ginner) would therefore propose that they engage Mr. Penny to examine and report thereon. Coun. H. N. Williams reminded the meeting that those who were in favour of the Ecclesbourne scheme declared that when the reservoir was finished the town would never again be short of water; but now, soon after its completion, they were told that the supply was in a desperate state. Things were altered since the Commissioners’ days. They could no longer spend money without consent of the General Board, and he failed to see the utility of having parties down at a great expense unless they could see their way clear what afterwards to do. At the quarterly meeting on the 5th of May, it was resolved on the motion of Mr Ginner (who had been 20 years on the Water Committee, succesively(sic) as a Commissioner and a Councillor) that the Local Board approve of Mr Penny’s plan for increasing the water supply; - that he make the necessary specifications for carrying out the work; and that immediate steps be taken to purchase from the Countess Waldegrave and others such land as would be necessary for the engine-house and cottage near the Gasworks, -
