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Electric
Lighting.
On the 2nd July, 1890, the Vestry received
a statutory notice from the Electric Lighting
Power Supply Company of their intention to apply, for a
Provisional Order, to supply electricity in this parish ; and
on the 3rd of September Messrs. Rollit & Sons, Solicitors to
the Company, forwarded notice of advertisement of application
for a Provisional Order, and deposited a map under the
Electric Lighting Acts, 1882 and 1888. The General Purposes
Committee, on the 14th of January, 1891, reported
that they had taken the application into their consideration
and had before them Mr. V. D. B. Cooper, Civil Engineer to
the Company, who gave full information as to the mode of
supply adopted, which is the Low Tension System, and for
which he claimed an advantage over the High Tension, the
one proposed to be used by the London Electric Supply
Corporation, to whom a Provisional Order had been granted
to supply part of the Parish.
The following streets: Camberwell Road, High Street,
Queen's Road, Church Street, and Rye Lane, were included
in the second schedule of the draft Provisional Order in
which it was compulsory to lay mains within two years
These did not include any part of the Nunhead or
Dulwich districts, which the Committee considered should
be included. Ultimately Mr. Cooper consented on
behalf of the company to the insertion of the following
streets in addition to the above: East Dulwich Road,
Peckham Rye (West Side from Rye Lane to East Dulwich
Road), East Dulwich Road, Lordship Lane, from Goose
Green to Woodward Road ; Peckham Rye, (East Side from
Rye Lane to Nunhead Lane), Nunhead Lane, Linden Grove
to the Cemetery.