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The Metropolitan Board of Works thereupon referred the subject to its Works
and General Purposes Committee for further consideration and report, and no further
steps have as yet been taken in the matter.
Electric Lighting.
In September 1882, the Vestry received notice under the provisions of the
Electric Lighting Act, 1882, of intention to apply for provisional orders for power to
supply electricity for lighting certain streets in this parish, from the following
companies, viz.:—
The Metropolitan (Brush) Electric Light and Power Company (Limited).
The Gulcher Klectric Light and Power Company (Limited).
The Edison Electric Lighting Company (Limited).
The Swan United Electric Light Company (Limited).
Messrs. Ferranti, Thompson and Ince (Limited).
On the 3rd October, 1882, the Vestrv appointed a Special Committee consisting
of the following Vestrymen, viz.: Messrs. Ralph Westall Walker, Henry Lovel
Bartlett, James Wilson, Henry Hayward, John Bulmer, Francis John Bisley, Robert
Foottit, Martin Deavin, and William Canbatn, to consider and report upon the
schemes of the before mentioned Electric Lighting Companies.
The Committee on the 17th October, 1882, reported to the Vestry the receipt of
a letter from the Vestry Clerk of Camberwell, inviting a deputation of three members
from each of the Vestries and District Boards of South London, to attend a Conference
at the Vestry Hall, Camberwell, on the 31st of October, 1882, on the subject of the
Electric Lighting Act, 1882, and the notices received from several Electric Lighting
Companies, and recommended that three delegates be appointed by the Vestry to
represent this parish at the said proposed conference.
The Vestrv adopted the recommendation of the Committtee and appointed Messrs
Robert Foottit, John Bulmer, and James Wilson as delegates from this Vestry, to
attend such conference.
On the 21st November, 1882, the Electric Lighting Committee reported to the
Vestry that the delegates appointed attended the conference of delegates from South
London Vestries and District Boards, at the Vestry Hall, Camberwell, at which it was
" Resolved, that it having been reported to the various Vestries and District
" Boards that, inasmuch as the provisions of the Electric Lighting Act require the
" Lolcal Authority to elect before the 25th January, 1883, either to apply for Licenses
" themselves, or Permit the undertakers to apply for provisional orders, and inasmuch
" as the President of the Board of Trade has declared that the Act of Parliament
" must be carried out, in the opinion of this Conference the local authorities should be
" advited to apply for licenses, so as to keep the power in their ow n hands
On the 5th December, 1882, a plan and notice was received by the Vestry, that
application was intruded to lie made by the Metropolitan (Brush) Electric Light and
Power Company ( Limited) to the Board of Trade, on or before the 21st December,
1882, for a provisional order for the purposes mentioned in the notice.