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As a result, your Honorable Council determined to open the said roadway at 6 o'clock
a.m., and to keep the same open until the hour of 9 o'clock p.m. during the
summer, and 8 o'clock p.m. during the winter.
That although this concession has proved of advantage to the working people who live
in Rotherhithe and whose business is in Bermondsey and vice versa, yet the hours
are scarcely sufficiently early or late to enable them to proceed to and from their
daily work, and many have still to go a long way round, which they feel to be a
great hardship.
That it would be conferring a great boon upon such working people if your Honorable
Council would determine to open the said roadway daily at 4 o'clock in the morning
and keep it open until 10 o'clock at night.
That your Memorialists see no reason to alter their opinion as to it being unnecessary
to fence off the said roadway, and they urge your Honorable Council to undertake the
cost of lighting and watching the same at the sole cost of your Honorable Council,
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in the same manner as is done in many other of the public Parks under your
control, where roads are kept open for public convenience long after the Parks
themselves are closed for the night.
Your Memorialists therefore pray that your Honorable Council will
extend the benefits they have already conferred upon the working
population of Rotherhithe and Bermondsey, by keeping the said
roadway through Southwark Park open daily from 4 o'clock in the
morning until 10 o'clock at night, and that your Honorable
Council will undertake the entire cost of lighting and watching the
same.
And your Memorialists will ever pray, etc.
The Seal of the Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe
affixed hereto by order this Sixteenth day of
October, 1894.
JAMES J. STOKES,
Clerk.
The Seal
of the Vestry
of the Parish of
Rotherhithe.