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determining as to carrying into effect the above resolution, and to appoint
as influential a deputation as possible.
(Signed), E. RUMNEY SMITH, Chairman.
On the 10th June, 1887, a Joint Deputation from the Vestries of Rotherhithe
St. George-in-the-East, and other Vestries, &c., introduced bv Mr. John Tolhurst
and consisting of Col. C. E. Hamilton, M P., Mr. Lafone, M.P., Revd. E. J. Beck
Mr. E. R. Smith, Mr. J. Bulmer, Mr. R. Foottit, Mr. S Chafen, Mr. T. Aldridge
Mr. F. J. Bisley, Mr. S. W. Copping, Mr. J. Griffin, Mr. H. L. Bartlett,
Mr. W. J. Bonallack, and other gentlemen waited upon the Metropolitan Board of
Works and presented Memorials from Parishes and District Boards, viz.:—The
Vestries of Rotherhithe, St. George-in-the-East, St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, and
the Board of Works for the Whitechapel District, the following being a copy of the
Memorial presented on behalf of the Vestry of Rotherhithe, viz.:—
To the Metropolitan Board of Works.
The Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish of
Rotherhithe, in the Countv of Surrev,
under their Common Seal.
SHEWETH—
That your Memorialists desire to impress upon your Honourable Board
the existing necessity for improved means of communication between the South Eastern
and North Eastern districts of the Metropolis, bv reason of the large increase of traffic
during recent years, and the loss of time and money now experienced, in conscquence of
the difficulty of obtaining access from one side of the River to the other, east of
London Bridge.
That in the unanimous opinion of your Memorialists any such communication
should be by means of a low-level free bridge to be constructed across the I hames,
between Rotherhithe and Wapping, with approaches on either side, starting respectively
from points to be determined upon, in the Deptford Lower Road, in the Parish of
Rotherhithe, and in Old Gravel Lane, in the Parish of Wapping, or in such other
positions within the said Parishes as your Honourable Board may deem advisable.
That although the Tower Bridge, now in construction by the Corporation of the
City of London, may in some degree relieve the existing want, it will not do so to any