The annals of Bristol in the nineteenth century. Concluded

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...to inundation. Perhaps moved by this intimation, the Council, on September 30th, rejected, by 46 votes against 15, another proposal by the Floods Committee to construct two "relief" culverts for the Cutlers' Mills and Boiling Well brooks at a cost of 46,000. A recurrence of floods, however, forced the Corporation to take action. At a meeting of the Council, on July 18th, 1899, the Sanitary Committee reported that they had obtained an Act, styled "The Bristol Floods Prevention Act, 1899," authorising the Council to construct a culvert for the prevention of floods arising from the Cutlers' Mills brook at a cost of 27,000. The Council ordered the committee to carry out the work. Mr. Charles D. Cave, banker, Clifton Park, one of the leaders of the local Conservative party, was created a baronet on May 19th. On June 9th the Council discussed a proposal for the erection of a waiting-room for tramway passengers on a triangular piece of ground on St. Augustine's bridge, at a cost of 3,000, for which the company had offered to pay a yearly rent of 260. A motion for its adoption was met by an amendment that no building whatever should be erected on the spot, and the latter was carried by 22 votes against 15. An Order of the Local Government Board was published on July 30th, confirming, with slight modifications, a draft scheme previously adopted by the Council for uniting, for County Council purposes, the parishes within the municipal boundary into three parishes, to be called North Bristol, Central Bristol, and South Bristol. (As this part of the scheme was superseded by the Boundaries' Act of 1897, it is unnecessary to enter into details.) The Commissioners of the District were abolished. The chief object of the Order was...