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southern corner of the gaol in Great Howard-street. In 

 addition to the advantages glanced at above, a direct route 

 would thus be opened through Park-lane and St. Jaines's-street, 

 from Crosby and Bootle to Toxteth and Aigburth, as the pro- 

 perty required for this street is of small value compared with 

 that in Oldhall-street, whilst the accommodation secured is 

 much greater, the diversion proposed will doubtless be preferred 

 to the widening of the old route. In continuation of this line 

 of thoroughfare southwards, let us pass through Canning-place, 

 and here we find a number of narrow defiles, more worthy of 

 being called entries than streets, and quite unequal to the 

 busy traffic of an active community. Here I propose to form 

 a new street, nearly in the line of Lower Frederick-street, but 

 much wider, into Park -lane, and to continue the main line of 

 Park -lane into Canning-place to a point westerly of its present 

 junction. By building over the Hues of the present Park-lane, 

 (between St. Thomas' Church and the Custom-house,) Mersey- 

 street, Hurst-street, the west end of Shaw's Alley, &c. ; the 

 land thus reclaimed from waste, with the increase of value 

 derived from the alterations, would defray a considerable por- 

 tion of the whole expense. 



That the route from the Town Hall to the Shire Hall should be 

 handsome and convenient, all must agree. I believe that powers 

 have been obtained for widening Dale-street, but that no steps 

 have been taken for reducing the steep ascent up Shaw's Brow. 

 For this no better plan occurs to me than that — often sug- 

 gested — of building a bridge over Byrom-strect, and thus to 

 remove the commencement of the ascent westward to about the 

 end of North-street : access would be had from Dale-street, into 

 "Whitechapcl, through Manchester-street ; into Byrorn-street, 

 through Fontenoy and Great Crosshall-streets ; and, from 

 Whitechapel to Shaw's Brow, through St. John's Village. 



In the old parts of the town many improvements may be 

 gradually introduced by widening streets now too narrow, 

 as the bottom of Duke-street ; reducing irregularities, as on 



