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To the London County Council.
The Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe, in the
County of London, under their Common Seal .
Rhemeth
That your Memorialists are of opinion that, having regard to the requirements of the
District, the establishment of a Free Ferry between Piotherhithe and Wapping is
urgently needed, and should no longer be delayed, and they therefore pray
That your Honourable Council will, in the next Session of Parliament,
proceed to obtain powers for the establishment of a Free Ferry
from your Memorialists' Parish to the opposite side of the river,
and for making the necessary approaches thereto ; but avoiding in
such approaches any interference with the churchyard of the
Parish Church of St. Mary and the Burial Ground in St.
Marychurch Street within your Memorialists' Parish, and that
your Honourable Council will proceed in the matter with all
possible dispatch.
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.
On the 10th October, 1894, a letter was received from the Secretary and Manager of the
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company in reply to the Vestry's letter re Cheap
Trains, stating that the Company already ran a large number of workmen's trains serving the
districts mentioned and enclosing particulars of trains and fares, and the South Eastern
Railway Company simply acknowledged the letter.