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stating, the Board on the 14th October, 1887, having considered several requests
which were before it for improvements in various parts of London, came to the
conclusion that it would not apply to Parliament next Session for power to carry
out any improvements in respect of which the Vestries or District Boards of the
Districts interested were not prepared to contribute part of the cost, the Board
therefore could not submit to Parliament next Session any proposal for the construction
of a Bridge across the Thames from Rotherhithe to Wapping.
On the 4th October, 1887, the Vestry received a Deputation, who submitted
a memorial, it was proposed to present to the Chairman and Directors of the
South Eastern Railway, and urged the Vestry to support their views before
the Chairman and Directors of the Railway Company.
The following is a copy of the Memorial:—
To the Chairman and Directors of the South Eastern Railway Company.
Gentlemen,
"We, the undersigned residents in the neighbourhood of the Boundaries of the
"Parishes of St. Mary, Rotherhithe, St. Paul's, Deptford, and St. Giles', Camber"well,
in close juxtaposition to your line of Railway, humbly call your attention
"to the great inconvenience arising on account of the want of access to the various
"Stations on your line, and pray that as the population in this immediate neigh"bourhood
has increased so enormously, and that over 2,000 houses have been
"erected during the last four years within a radious of half-a-mile, we humbly
"ask that your honourable Board will take into consideration the advisability of
"constructing a Station at or near the site of the Old Commercial Dock Station,"
It was
"Resolved, that a Deputation consisting of nine members of the Vestry be
appointed to wait upon the Directors of the South Eastern Railway in support of
the Memorial of the inhabitants of this parish for increased Station accommodation
on the said Railway.
On the 27th October, 1887, the Deputation appointed by the Vestry, viz.:—
Messrs. John Bulmer, Francis John Bisley, Samuel Ward Copping, Henry Lovel