REPAVEMENT OF THE STRAND, LONDON, UK; The usually crowded roadways of Fleet Street and the Strand have just been in part re-laid

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REPAVEMENT OF THE STRAND, LONDON, UK; The usually crowded roadways of Fleet Street and the Strand have just been in part re-laid with granite pavement, in well-timed anticipation of the additional amount of traffic to be expected during the approaching Great Exhibition. The system now generally adopted in the metropolitan carriage roads is, to prepare a foundation of concrete, and then place upon it the granite blocks to a proper curve, generally a flat segment of a circle, so as to throw off the water into the side gutters. The interstices are then grouted with liquid mortar, and the whole surface is afterwards strewed with sand, and thus made ready for traffic., 1851 engraving

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