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At a Meeting of the Vestry held on the 1st day of November, 1881, Messrs. John
Bulmer, Edward James Talbot, and Lawrence Stevens (the three Commissioners for
Public Baths and Wash-houses who retired by rotation) were unanimously re-elected
to act in conjunction with Messrs. Francis John Bisley, Daniel Serle, Thomas William
Clarke, and Edward John Cox, the continuing Commissioners.
Upon an application made to the Vestry on the 7th March, 1882, by the Commissioners
for Public Baths and Wash-houses, for the sanction of the Vestry to their
borrowing the further sum of £2,500 at interest, on security of a Mortgage of the Poor
Kates of the Parish, the said sum being required by the Commissions to meet the
balances due to the Builder, Engineer and Architect of the Baths, to pay the two
instalments on the Loans already borrowed to become due in April and July 1882, and
for providing increased accommodation which was much required in the Wash-houses,
it was
“Resolved, that this Vestry hereby sanction the Commissioners for Public Baths
“ and Wash-houses in this Parish borrowing at interest the further sum of £2,500 on
“the security of a Mortgage of the Hates for the Relief of the Poor of this Parish,
“ such sum of £2,500, to be applied for the purposes of the Act to encourage the
“establishment of Public Baths and Wash-houses, and the several Acts amending the
“ same.
Miscellaneous.
At a joint Meeting of the Vestries of the Parishes of Rotherhithe, St. John,
Horselydown, St. Olave, and St. Thomas, Southwark, held at the Vestry Hall of
St. Olave, on the 9th June, 1881, John Tolhurst, Esq. was unanimously re-elected a
Member of the Metropolitan Board of Works, for the St. Olave and Rotherhithe
District, to serve three years.
By the formal orders of the Metropolitan Board of Works, dated respectively 29th
July, 1881, Clarence-street has been re-numbered; the portion of the Iiotherhithe
New-road, from the Bricklayer's Arms Railway Bridge to the boundary of this parish,
has also been renumbered, and the subsidary names of terraces abolished.
A letter dated 11th November, 1881, was received by the Vestry from the Superintending
Architect of the Metropolitan Board of Works, stating that the Board had
approved a plan submitted by Messrs. Still and Son, for the formation of a new road
to lead out of the east side of Deptford Lower-road, to be named Moodkee-street, S.E.
A communication dated 13th March, 1882, was received from the Superintending
Architect of the Metropolitan Board of Works, stating that the Board had approved
of a plan submitted by Messrs. Haines and Darling, for the formation of an extension
of Alpine-road, and the formation of a new road between such extension and Corbett’s
Lane, on a portion of the St. Helena Gardens Estate, to be named Alpine-road, S.E.,
in continuation, and Eugenia-road, S.E., upon the usual conditions.