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On the 27th June, 1876, the Surveyor of Sewers submitted a plan of a scheme
for widening Rotherhithe Street from Cherry Garden Street eastward, also Church
Street, Adam Street, and Union Road, by the Royal Oak P.H., &c., which plan was
then approved by the Vestry, and a memorial was prepared praying that the
Metropolitan Board of Works would carry out the whole of the improvements
shown upon the said plan as public improvements for the general benefit of the
Metropolis at large, and such memorial was presented to the Metropolitan Board
of Works on the 30th June, 1876, by a Deputation, appointed by the Vestry
for that purpose, consisting of the following Gentlemen, viz:—Messrs. Robert
Foottit and Edward James Talbot, Churchwardens, and Messrs. John Bulmer,
Edward John Cox, Reuben Henry Williams, junr., Robert Allen, James Powell
and Henry Hay ward.
The Vestry have since received the following communication from the clerk to
the Metropolitan Board of Works, on the subject, viz:—
Metropolitan Board of Works,
Spring Gardens, S.W.,
10th August, 1876,
Sir,
I have to state, for the information of the Vestry of Rotherhithe, that
the Board has resolved to submit to Parliament in the next session, a Bill to
authorise some further street improvements in the Metropolis, and has further
resolved to include in the Bill the widening of the thoroughfare from Tooley Street to
Dockhead to feet 50 by taking down the south side and north side of parts of Tooley
Street, the south side of Freeschool Street and the south side of Thornton Street; the
widening of Dockhead, the widening of Union Road, between Paradise Street and
Market Place, Rotherhithe; and the widening of Jamaica Road Bermondsey. The
Engineer and Architect of the Board have been instructed to report whether they
can suggest any better plans for effecting these improvements than those already
submitted to the Board, and the report of these officers is to be considered before
a final decision is come to on the subject. The other improvements in the Parish
of Rotherhithe, suggested in the Memorial presented by the Vestry to the Board
on the 30th June last, remain for consideration at a future time.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) J. E. WAKEFIELD,
Clerk to the Board.
To the Clerk of the
Vestry of Rotherhithe.