(43)"Street" shall mean any road, footway, square, court, alley, gully or passage, accessible, whether permanently or temporarily to the public, and whether a thoroughfare or not; and shall include every vacant space, notwithstanding that it may be private property and partly or wholly obstructed by any gate, post, chain or other barrier, if houses, shops or other buildings about thereon, and if it is used by any persons as means of access to or from any public place or thoroughfare, whether such persons be occupiers of such building or not, but shall not include any part of such space which the occupier of any such buildings has right at all hours to prevent all other persons from using as aforesaid, and shall include also the drains or gutters therein, or on either side, and the land, whether covered or not by any payment, verandah or other erection, up to the boundary of any abutting property not accessible to the public;
