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Bartlett, Robert Leishman, Stewart, Lawrence Stevens, Edward James Talbot, and
Messrs. E. Rumney Smith and Francis Thomas Talbot, Churchwardens, accompanied
by John Tolhurst, Esq., member of the Metropolitan Board of Works attended by
appointment, at the Offices of the South Eastern Railway Company, and presented
a Memorial as follows, viz.:—
To the Directors of the South Eastern Railway Company.
The Memorial of the Vestrv of the Parish of Rotherhithe, Surrev,
under their Common Seal :
Sheweth,
That a Deputation from this Vestry waited upon the Directors of your
Company, in the year 1878, and urged upon them the necessity which then
existed for an additional Station between Deptford and Spa-road, a large new
neighbourhood having there sprung up in this Parish adjacent to the South Eastern
Railway Company's line which was pointed out by the Vestry to Sir Edward Watkin
and the late Mr. John Shaw, who subsequently visited the locality.
That since the period referred to, the following Estates have been opened out and
built upon in the neighbourhood of Rotherhithe New-road, adjacent to the South
Eastern Railway, whereby a large increase in the population has taken place, namely:
Abbett-street, Ilderton, Cranswick, Bramcote, Delaford, Creedon, Barkworth, Verney
and Varcoe Roads, Millidge and Egan Streets, Alice Terrace and Catlin Street, Bermondsey
New-road, Rolls-road, Bonamy-street and part of St. James'-street, Bolina,
Lampa and Senegal Roads, and the St Helena Estate containing the following Roads,
namely: Bracton, Eugenia, Alpine, Fawcett, Reculver, Goodson, Cornbury, Rudford,
and Oldfield-road, the increase in the number of houses in Rotherhithe alone since
1878, being 515.
That since 1878 the increase in the population of Rotherhithe is 6,339 ; most of
the houses in the new streets above referred to being built for and occupied by two
families, the class of people occupying the same being clerks and mechanics, many of
whom work in the City and West-end who have to walk to Spa-road which is upwards
of a mile distant, the South Bermondsey Station of the London, Brighton and South
Coast Railway Company being of little or no service, not taking them beyond London
Bridge.