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The Maryport Advertiser - Friday, July 21, 1882

A NEWSPAPER FOR ASPATRIA, COCKERMOUTH, MARYPORT, WIGTON, AND WORKINGTON.
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NO. 1231  (Registered for Transmission Abroad)   PRICE ONE PENNY
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE ADVERTISER.

SIR, - Will you allow me, through the medium of your paper, to draw
attention to the subject of the footpaths between the town and railway
station.

That much talked of, long expected, and greatly needed flags have at length
been laid down on a considerable portion of the footpaths in the four
principal streets chosen for a commencement, and those in Senhouse-street
are almost if not altogether finished, at any rate they are laid down on
both sides of that street at the point where it joins Curzon-street, but it
evidently is not intended to carry them any further in that direction at
present.

This is to be regretted.  Could not the Trustees be prevailed upon to carry
them right on to the limit of their boundary, close to the front gates of
the passenger station ?  This they cannot object to on the ground that the
streets through which they would be carried are unimportant ones.  If the
using of the streets by foot passengers is taken as the standard by which,
for this purpose, the importance of any of our streets is to be judged, I
would claim for Station-street and the portion of Curzon-street under
notice, that they are among the most important - if not actually the most
important - of the streets of our town, as all the passengers between the
railway station and the town have to pass through them.

A comparison of the footpaths of the above-named streets with those that
have now been flagged is not at all favourable to the former.  Sometimes I
have occasion to use them myself, and a more striking illustration than they
often present of the superiority of the flags to the antiquated "petrified
kidneys", and little more confortable ballast, it would be difficult to
find.

The cobbles were in wet weather superior to the ballast, and now in such
weather the contrast between the flags and the ballast is therefore much
more marked.  After passing off the flags - which keep the feet
comparatively dry - it has not unfrequently been my experience to have had
to pick my way among the pools of water and puddle in the ballast with the
greatest care, in order to avoid a good wetting or other unpleasant
consequences.

Apologising for taking up so much of your space (that is, in anticipation of
your inserting my letter), and hoping that the subject may receive the early
and favourable attention of the Trustees, -- I am, sir, yours, &c.,

RATEPAYER
July 12th.
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