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Bull Head Dock and the Victoria OH Mills.
The loan of £5,000 for the purchase of this property was taken up by the Vestry on
12th April, 1894, and placed on deposit with the Vestry's Bankers until required for the
completion of the purchase.
The completion of the purchase of the property was effected in May, 1894, and vacant
possession given, subject to the right of the Lessees to remove their machinery from the
Oil Mills within 30 days as provided by the contract. The Vestry resolved to effect an
insurance of the buildings with the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company in the
sum of £1,000.
The question of the adaptation of the property having been referred to a Committee
for consideration and report, the Vestry on 5th June, upon the recommendation of the
Committee, passed the following resolution:—
"That the Surveyor be instructed to prepare a plan showing the adaptation of the
buildings to the requirements of the Vestry, the erection thereon of a Destructor,
plant and equipment for the purposes of collection, removal and disposal of house
and street refuse, etc., and also showing the existing Dock filled up and a concrete
wall along the river frontage; and also an alternate plan showing new buildings on
the east side of the existing Dock, with a Destructor, etc. on the west side, so as to
utilise it possible the existing chimney-shaft, and submit an estimate of the cost
thereof to a future meeting of the Committee."
The Mostly also instiucted the Surveyor to prepare a plan showing the roadway in
Rotherhithe Street widened by setting back the frontage line of the buildings, Bull Head
Dock uid the Victoria Oil Mills, and also setting back the houses belonging to the Surrey
Commercia! Dock Company on the land side, from the "Great Bnll's Head" P.H. to the
Company's fence, and instructed the Clerk to write to the Directors of the Company to
enquire whether, m the event of the Company pulling down the houses belonging to them in