text:  It may be interesting to those who watch the progress of great changes to particularize the operations (amounting in the aggregate to forty thousand yards) that were carried out upon this system in 1842:-- St Giles's Holborn Foundling Estate Hammersmith Bridge St Andrew's Holborn Jermyn Street Old Bailey Piccadilly Newgate Street eastern end Southampton Street Lombard Street Oxford Street Regent Street; besides several noblemen's court-yards such as the Dukes of Somerset and Sutherland's and a great number of stables for which it is found peculiarly adapted