[Illustration: ~Sale of Hyde-Park-Corner Toll-gate.~]
“The last time! a going! gone.”
_Auctioneer._
“Down! down! derry down!”
_Public._
The sale by auction of the “toll-houses” on the north and south side of
the road, with the “weighing machine,” and lamp-posts at
Hyde-park-corner, was effected by Mr. Abbott, the estate agent and
appraiser, by order of the trustees of the roads. They were sold for
building materials; the north toll-house was in five lots, the south in
five other lots; the gates, rails, posts, and inscription boards were in
five more lots; and the engine-house was also in five lots. At the same
time, the weighing machine and toll-houses at Jenny’s Whim bridge were
sold in seven lots; and the toll-house near the bun-house at Chelsea,
with lamp posts on the road, were likewise sold in seven lots. The whole
are entirely cleared away, to the relief of thousands of persons
resident in these neighbourhoods. It is too much to expect every thing
vexatious to disappear at once; this is a very good beginning, and if
there be truth in the old saying, we may expect “a good ending.”
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