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estimates from Sir Joseph Bazalgette of the cost respectively of a Subway and a Bridge
the former being estimated at £2,200,000 and the latter at £625,000 without the
approaches. It was Resolved to invite the Vestries of Shadwell, St. George's-in-theEast,
Whitechapel, Hackney, Bethnal Green, and Bermondsey to send Delegates to
meet your Committee in Conference, and subsequently the District Boards ot Greenwich
and Lewisham, and the Vestries of Camberwell, Shoreditch, and Mile End Old
Town were also included.
In response to your Committee's invitation the Vestries of Bermondsey, Bethnal
Green, Hackney, St. George's-in-the-East, Whitechapel, Mile End Old Town and
Camberwell appointed representatives to attend the Conference, but Hackney
subsequently withdrew.
Meetings were accordingly held in this Vestries' Board-room and adjourned from
time to time at which the opinions of the several representatives have been obtained,
the general opinion being that a means of communication is urgently needed, and that
such communication should be by way of a Bridge in preferance to a Subway.
The last meeting of your Committee and the aforesaid representatives was held on
the 25th April, 1887, when the following resolution was moved by Mr. Bulmer of
Rotherhithe, seconded by Mr. Bonallack, of St. Georges-in-the-East, was unanimously
passed, viz.:—
That this meeting being of opinion that a Bridge across the Thames between
Rotherhithe and Wapping will be the best means of communication, and more conducive
to the general convenience of the Public, a Deputition from the Boards of Works and
Vestries now present, and others interested in the matter wait upon the Metropolitan
Board of Works and present a joint Memorial urging that Board to proceed at the
earliest possible date to obtain power for the erection of a low level Bridge across the
Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping.
It was at the same meeting further Resolved to invite the landowners and ratepayers
of the parishes interested, the Members of Parliament, and the Members of the
Metropolitan Board of Works for the several districts to a meeting to be held at this
Vestry s Board -room, on Monday, the 23rd day of May, 1887, for the purpose of