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building of a new Bridge over the Thames at Hammersmith,
of such width, character and design, as will be fitted to meet
the growing necessities of the public traffic between the
Middlesex and Surrey banks of the Thames at this point.
Your Memorialists therefore humbly pray that your honorable
Board may be pleased to promote in Parliament, a Bill to
enable your honorable Board to undertake the construction
of a new Bridge at Hammersmith, and to take such other
steps in the premises as to your honorable Board may seem
meet.
And your Memorialists will ever pray.
By Order,
THOMAS EDWARD JONES,
Clerk to the Board.
February, 1882.
The reply received from the Metropolitan Board is as follows:
[Copy Letter.]
" Metropolitan Board of Works.
Spring Gardens, S.W.
March 23rd, 1882.
No. 1445.
B. 17. 3.
Sir,
Referring to the memorial presented to the Board by a
deputation from the Fulham District Board of Works on
the 17th ultimo, asking the Board, in consideration of the
facts and circumstances stated in the memorial, to build a
new bridge at Hammersmith ; I am directed to inform you
that the subject has received the careful attention of the
Board, and that after fully considering all the circumstances,
the Board has come to the conclusion that it is not necessary
to build an entirely new bridge. The Board has, however,
resolved that with a view to strengthen the bridge and also
to provide increased accommodation for the traffic, the superstruction
shall be entirely reconstructed, and the southern
pier underpinned. The reconstruction in the manner proposed,
will have the effect of giving an additional width of