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That your Memorialists disapprove of the proposal to construct a Tunnel under
the Thames, at an angle from the Commercial-road to this parish, believing1 that the
requirements of the Eastern and South Eastern portions of the Metropolis would not
thereby be satisfactorily provided for, but that such Tunnel would he very inconvenient
for the passage of the heavy timber traffic from the Surrey Commercial Docks to the
opposite side of the river.
Your Memorialists therefore pray that your Honourable Board will be pleased to
take into your favourable consideration the propriety of constructing a low-level Bridge
over the River Thames, either in continuation of the Deptford Lower-road, or at such
other point within your Memorialists' parish as your Honourable Board may consider
more suitable, and
Your Memorialists will ever pray, &c.
Sealed by order of the Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe, (Seal of Vestry)
this 27th November, 1885.
(Signed) JAMES J. STOKES,
Clerk to the Vestry.
The Memorial was referred by the Metropolitan Board of Works to their Works
and General Purposes Committee for consideration.
In June, 1885, on the application of the Remembrancer of the Corporation of the
City of London, the Vestry presented a Petition to the House of Lords in support
of the London Tower Bridge Bill, and appointed the following gentlemen to give
evidence before the Committee of the House of Lords in favour of the scheme, viz.:
Messrs. John Bulmer, Robert Foottit, Francis John Bisley, Henry Hayward and
Ralph Westall Walker.
Miscellaneous.
A communication dated 5th June, 1885, was received from the Superintending
Architect of the Metropolitan Board of Works, stating that the Board had approved a
plan submitted by Messrs. Stock, Page and Stock for the formation of a new road out
of Bracton-road, Rotherhithe, to be named "Eugenia Road," S.E. (in continuation)
upon the usual conditions.
In September, 1885, the Vestry in cooperation with the Vestry of St. Pancras and
other Vestrids and District Boards in the Metropolis, appointed delegates to attend a
conference of the representatives of the Metropolitan Local Boards, on the subject
of the Management and Expenditure of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, viz.: Messrs.
Henry Hayward, Francis John Bisley and Lawrence Stevens, those gentlemen attended
a conference of the delegates at the Mansion House, London, on the 19th October,
1885, and reported to the Vestry that a resolution had been passed at the meeting as
follows, viz.:
"That in the opinion of this meeting, the evidence taken by the Local (Jovern"ment
Board Inspectors, with reference to the expenditure, &c., at the Eastern
"(Homerton) Hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, discloses a lack of efficient
"control over the affairs of the Hospital, a loose and careless mode of conducting the