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A deputation of nine members was thereupon appointed, consisting
of Messrs Smithers, Dawes, Horsley, Edwards, Cory, Youldon,
Hammond, WESTCOTr and Vernon The memorial was sealed by
the Vestry on the 18th March, praying the Council to have the
ground valued and acquire the freehold upon the basis of such
valuation, the Vestry contributing one-half of the cost: and to be
heard by deputation when the matter was under the consideration
of the Parks and Open Spaces Committee
Kennington Park—Proposed Footway across —This subject was again
brought under the Vestry's consideration on the 17th April 1895,
by means of a memorial introduced by a deputation of seven
ratepayers, asking the Vestry to unite with the Lambeth Vestry in
using their joint influence in urging the London County Council to
open up a thoroughfare across Kennington Park during the hours
the park was closed to the public at night The General Purposes
Committee then conferred with representatives appointed by the
Lambeth Vestry and agreed upon the following recommendations,
which were submitted to and adopted by the Vestry on the
10th July:—
That in the opinion of this Vestry the proposed opening of a public footway
throughout the night across Kennington Park is extremely
desirable
That the London County Council be petitioned by the joint Vestries of
Newington and Lambeth to make this footway as a metropolitan
improvement
At the meeting of the Vestry on the 27th November it transpired
that the Lambeth Vestry had independently approached the Council
on the question and been met with a refusal, and a fresh reference
to Committee ensued On the 5th February 1896 the Committee
reported that the Lambeth Vestry was now willing to join in the
proposed memorial and to contribute an equal moiety of such portion
of the cost as might be fixed by the Council, and recommended :—
That the seal of the Vestry be affixed to a joint memorial of the two
Vestries of Newington and Lambeth, praying the London County
Council to form, light and maintain a public footway across
Kennington Park and to keep the same open throughout the night,
upon both Vestries agreeing to contribute an equal moiety of such
portion of the cost thereof as may bo fixed by the Council