London County Council and The Embankment 1906 (2)

Typical specification for laying Victorian Jarrah and Karri wooden paving blocks.

From the Kearney Files
Pall Mall Gazette September 14th 1906

The letters which we publish on the question of the threatened use of Granite Setts in laying the L. L. C. Tram lines along the Embankment will command general sympathy and Mr. E. W. C. Kearney should have no difficulty getting a host of signatures to petition a protest. If the Teams must interfere with the amenities of London's only Boulevard at the Country Council might have tried to make their presence as unobjectionable to the eye and ear as possible instead of which the plan is to run them where they will spoil the trees and over Granite Setts which will mean continual rattling din intolerable to those who have to sleep or work in Hotels or Offices on the Embankment and to all users of that fine promenade and drive. There is no valid reason against the substitution of Wooden Blocks for Granite Setts, Wood would mitigate the distracting foster as it does in miles of them lain in London Streets.