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Council with regard to the fencing of the roadway, and whether they will year
the cost thereof, and of watching.
3. To require that the roadway be opened by 5 o'clock in the morning,
and kept open until midnight, but for foot traffic only after dusk; and
recommended that the previous resolutions of the Vestry, dated respectively 26th
November, 1891, and 2nd April, 1895, not to bear the cost of the lighting and
maintenance of the roadway, be rescinded, and the action of the Delegates
approved.
Resolved That the report of the Delegates be received, adopted, and entered upon
the Minutes, but that the notice to rescind stand over for the present.
On 19th November, 1895, the Committee reported having met the Bermondsey
Delegates and a Sub-Committee of the Parks and Open Spaces Committee of the Council,
at the roadway, Southwark Park, on Saturday, the 16th November, 1895, and discussed the
question of the fencing and patrolling of the roadway (the Bermondsey and Rotherliithe
Vestries having already agreed to equally share the cost of providing lamps, and maintaining
the lighting of the roadway), and that after considerable discussion as to whether the
Vestries should pay for the fencing and patrolling, or a proportion of the cost thereof, they
had resolved that the previous resolution of the Vestry in the matter, viz.: to equally share
with the Vestry of Bermondsey the cost of providing lamps and maintaining the lighting of
the roadway, be still adhered to; but that the London County Council be respectfully
requested to take over the entire control of the roadway, both by way of fencing and patrolling,
free of any further cost to the two Vestries; and that the Chairman of the Parks and Open
Spaces Committee of the Council, who was present, had promised to report the result of the
Conference to the Committee.
Resolved—That the report of the Committee be adopted.
On the 17th March, 1896, the London County Council adopted the following report and
recommendation of the Parks and Open Spaces Committee:
The hour for closing the Council's parks varies with the seasons of the year,
but for some time past we have, as an experiment, allowed the gates at each end of
the road which crosses Southwark Park to be kept open until seven o’c lock during