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That the want of an additional Station between Deptford and Spa-road is
most urgently needed for the better accommodation of this large population, and
in order to relieve the congested traffic at Spa-road, which is attended with so much
risk and inconvenience to the public.
Your Memorialists therefore pray that your Honourable Board of
Directors will take the above facts into your favourable consideration,
and provide the requisite Station accommodation
between Deptford and Spa-road as desired.
And your Memorialists will ever pray.
Seal
Mr. Kelly, M.P., for Camberwell, attended on behalf of that parish, and
there were also present many of the inhabitants of the Destrict. That the Deputation
was received by Mr. Beattie, one of the Directors (in the absence of Sir
Edward Watkin), and having heard the several memorials read, and Mr. Kelly, M P.
Mr. John Bulmer, and other gentlemen having spoken in support thereof urging
the Directors to provide the requisite accommodation. Mr. Beattie stated he would
place the matter before the Directors at their next meeting.
The matter is still under the consideration of the Directors of the South Eastern
Railway.
In February, 1888, an Agreement was entered into between the Vestry of
the Parish of Bermondsey, and the Vestry of Rotherhithe, that the Vestry of
Bermondsey should at their own expense repair, maintain, cleanse and water the whole
of that portion of the cariageway of Rotherthithe New-road, which lies west of No. 271,
Rotherhithe New-road, and also the whole of the carriageway of Southwark Park-road
from Galleywall-road to Jamaica-road; and that the Vestry of Rotherhithe should at
their own expense repair, maintain, cleanse and water the carriageway of the whole
of that portion of the Rotherhithe New-road which lies opposite to and east of 271