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1869, many acred of land in Rotherhithe situate in the immediate vicinity of 'the park,
which were then used as market ground, have been built upon and many hundreds of
houses erected thereon, all of which are tenanted, so that the population of Rotherhithe
alone has considerably increased with in the last ten years ; again extensive building
operations have been going on in the adjacent Parish of Bermondsey during the same
period and at the present time applications are before your Honourable Board and your
Memorialists with reference to laying out, for building purposes,. other largre pieces of
land in your Memorialists Parish.
In the summer months the Park is much resorted to, and the portion allotted for
Cricketing is densely crowded with Cricketers and children at play, and accidents are
by no means uncommon in consequence of children and others being struck by cricket
balls, the space being somewhat limited in consequence of the limited area of the park.
Your Memorialists consider it would confer a great public boon if your Honourable
Hoard will purchase the ground above referred to and add it to the park and lay
it out as to your Honourable Board may seem most advisable as a recreation
ground or otherwise, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the surrounding district
and their children, and
your Memorialists therefore pray that your Honourable Board will be pleased to
take the above facts into your early and favourable consideration, and to purchase the
said ground for the purpose of adding it to Southwark Park as a recreation ground or
otherwise for the benefit of the inhabitants of the surrounding districts and of the
public at large.
And your Memorialists will ever pray, &c.
Sealed by Order of the Vestry, of the Parish of Rotherhithe,
this 13th day of March, 1879. Seal.
(Signed) HAWKS & STOKES,
Clerks to the Vestry.
The Metropolitan Board of Works referred the said Memorial to their Works and
General Purposes Committee for consideration.
On the re-building of the Barley Mow P. H. Paradise Street, the Vestry approved
of the alteration and widening of the passageway on the South side of the same communicating
between Paradise Street and Clark's Orchard, as, proposed by Mr. W. Whale
the owner to be carried out at his own expense. The Vestry also approved of the
frontage line for the adjacent new houses in Paradise Street subject to the remainder
of the ground beyond such new line being thrown into the public way.
By Order of the Metroplitan Board of Works the whole line of thoroughfare
extending from Cherry Garden Steam Boat Pier to the Commercial Dock Steam Boat
Pier ha* been named Rotherhithc Street, and the houses therein re-numbered, also the