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Boundary Stones.
Mr F T. Talbot having drawn the attention of the Vestry at their meeting on 4th
February, 1896, to the fact of several of the boundary stones between Rotherhithe and
Deptford being apparently reverse and some defaced.
The Surveyor was instructed to report upon the condition of such boundary stones.
Bull Head Dock and the Victoria Oil Mills.
In accordance with the instructions of the Vestry the Surveyor prepared and submitted
two alternative schemes for the adaptation of the property to the requirements of the Vestry,
viz:—
Plan A.—Utilising as far as possible the existing buildings at an estimated cost of
£12,815.
Plan B.—Showing a complete set of new buildings at an estimated cost of £13,250.
"\\ hich were referred to the General Purposes and Works Committee for consideration
and report, and on 16th April, 1895, it was
Resolved, upon the recommendation of the Committee—
(1) That plan B be approved and adopted subject to the width of the Dock being
increased to 50 feet at the coping at an estimated increase of £240.
(2) That application be made to the London County Council for their sanction to
borrow the sum of £14,090, being £13,490 the cost of the scheme, plus £600 the
cost of widening Rotherhithe Street by setting back the frontage line to the line of
the other buildings.
(3) That the London County Council be now asked to lend the sum of £4,860 as an
instalment of the said sum of £14,090, being the estimated cost of building the