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great extent, being too near London Bridge, and too far from the principal stream of
traffic which would be taken by a Bridge in the locality suggested by your Memorialists
as herein mentioned.
That the erection of a Bridge commends itself to your Memorialists both on the
ground of its being most conducive to the general convenience of the public as well as
on the question of expense, the estimate of the cost of a Bridge being considerably less
than the estimated cost of a Subway, as to which fact your Memorialists believe your
Honourable Board has already satisfied itself.
Your Memorialists thereof humbly pray
That your Honourable Board will proceed, at the earliest possible date, to obtain
powers from Parliament for the erection of a low-level free Bridge across
the Thames, from Rotherhithe to Wapping, either in the locality suggested
by your Memorialists or at such other places within the Parishes aforesaid,
as your Honourable Board may deem most advisable.
And your Memorialists will ever pray, &c.
The Common Seal of the Vestry
of Rotherhithe, was affixed hereto bv
order, this 9th day of June, 1887.
(Signed) JAMES J. STOKES,
Clerk to the Vestry.
Seal of the
Vestry.
when the Board referred the said Memorials to their Works and General Purposes
Committee for consideration.
On the 31st October, 1887, the Vestry received a communication from the
Clerk to the Metropolitan Board of Works, with reference to the Memorials
presented to the Board on the 10th June, 1887, on behalf of the Vestry of
Rotherhithe and other Vestries and District Boards on both sides of the River
at the east end of London, asking the Board to obtain powers for the erection
of a low-level Bridge across the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping, and