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in the vicinity asking the Vestry to widen the entrance to Union
Road from the Causeway The London County Council was then
again asked to undertake the widening as a metropolitan improvement,
the Yestry renewing its offer to contribute £2,000 towards
the cost (see Annual Report for 1893-4, page 97); but replied that
having regard to the estimate of £17,200, in which no reduction
could be made, the contribution offered by the Vestry was not large
enough to j ustify the Council in undertaking the work, and inquired
whether the Yestry could increase its contribution Assistance was
then sought from the Vestry of St George-the-Martyr, but that
Vestry pleaded its financial inability to co-operate, owing to its
heavy loss of revenue from rates through extensive clearances of
insanitary property in the parish The Vestry thereupon, on the
19th February 1896, discharged the reference to Committee, and
the subject dropped for the second time
Thurlow Street Improvement—A deputation attended before the
Vestry on the 11th December 1895, introduced by Messrs Spokes
and Parkek (representatives for Walworth on the London County
Council), in support of a petition signed by 2,464 persons praying
for the co-operation of the Vestry in bringing this matter before the
Council with the view of securing the desired improvement The
memorial was duly considered by the General Purposes Committee,
upon whose advice the Vestry resolved on the 8th January 1896 :—
That inasmuch as this Vestry have at the cost of the ratepayers of this
parish effected their part of the Thurlow Street Improvement by
securing the dedication of the land and making up the road from
Sedan Street to the boundary, the consideration of the petition
presented to the last meeting of the Vestry be deferred until the
Camberwell Vestry are prepared to seek the co-operation of this
Vestry in effecting the opening into Albany Road, and agree to
contribute a much larger proportion than one-fourth of the cost
The Camberwell Vestry having stated its intention of adhering to
its original offer to bear only one-fourth of the cost not exceeding £500
(see Annual Report for 1890-91, page 92), the Vestry discharged the
reference on the 19th February 1896
Street Nomenclature—On the 8th January 1896 the Vestry agreed
to the proposal of the London County Council to rename Elizabeth