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support of their objections thereto, and that they may have such other
relief in tho premises as to your Honourable House may seem meet,
And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c.
Sealed by order,
THOMAS EDWARD JONES,
Clerk to the Board.
20th February, 1884.
At the same time the Board passed the following resolution: —
Moved by Mr. Glen, Seconded by Mr. Martiudill, and resolved:—
"That this Board recognising (as stated in the Petition), that the
formation of a Public Recreation Ground at Fulham would be of great
public advanatage and conducive to the health and enjoyment of the
inhabitants of the Metropolis, will be prepared to reconsider their
opposition to the Bill, in the event of the promoters so altering their
scheme as to provide that the cost of establishing and maintaining
the Recreation Ground should be borne in like manner to the cost of
establishing and maintaining other public parks and open spaces in the
Metroplis, now under the care and control of the Metropolitan
Board, and that the Recreation Ground when established, and tbe
establishment thereof, should be vested in the said Metropolitan Board
of Works, and that the Board of Conservators should then be dissolved."
A copy of which was transmitted to the promoters.
Subsequently the promoters of the Bill attended, and had an interview
with the Law and Parliamentary committee, but no satisfactory
arrangement could be made.
On the Bill coming before a Committee of the House of Commons,
the promoters having regard to the formidable opposition
offered by the Board, in conjunction with the Metroplitan Board,
consented to withdraw from the Bill all reference to the Board as to
the Metropolitan Board.
Cromwell Road Bridge.
This Bill proposed to authorise the construction of a Bridge over
certain Railways near the western end of Cromwell Road, Kensington,
with the necessary approach roads, &c.
The Bridge, when constructed, will open a short and convenient line
of communication between the important thoroughfares and districts
of North End Road, Fulham, West Kensington, and Hammersmith
and Cromwell Road, West Kensington.
The Board, in order to obtain clauses for the protection of the
interest of the district petition against the Bill, and having obtained
the required protection, the petition was withdrawn, and tbe Bill
passed unopposed.
Great Western Railway, No. I.
This General Powers Bill included provision for the acquisition of
a triangular piece of land, adjoining tbe "Sussex" Hotel, the Broadway,
but the clause in question was subsequently withdrawn from the
Bill.