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Board of Trade
(Fisheries and Harbour Department),
7 Whitehall Gardens, S.W.,
2Gth September, 1898.
Sir,
With further reference to your letter of the 25th ultimo, upon the subject of the Campshed
which has been constructed by Mr. .John Hollway at Trinity Wharf, Botherhithe, I am
directed by the Board of Trade to state that, as their functions in regard to works on the bed
or shores of the River Thames under Section 182 of the Thames Conservancy Act, 1894, only
have reference to the possible effect of new works upon the general navigation of the river,
the Board do not feel that they can usefully add anything to the previous correspondence.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
The Clerk; Vestry of Botherhithe. , T. H. W. PELHAM.
On 4th October, 1898, the General Purposes and Works Committee reported that they did
not feel that the matter was one that the Vestry should incur any expense about by obtain-
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ing Counsel's opinion or otherwise.
-The Vestry therefore resolved that no further action be taken in the matter, but that
Mr. Holloway be required to place a notice board indicating the position of the campshed.
The notice board has been erected.
Grice's Wharf.
On 21st March, 1899, the General Purposes and Works Committee reported with reference
to the following report of the Surveyor:—
Beceiving a complaint that the right of way adjoining Grice's Wharf, Kotherhithe Street,
was in a dirty condition by reason of persons using it as a urinal, I have had the same thoroughly
cleansed, but the owners of the wharf now ask "to prevent it being used as a public urinal, etc.,
at night, would the Vestry erect a high gate at the street entrance, and they would undertake to
look after the same and keep it locked at night." There are no public stairs at this right of way,
and a gate exists at present at the river end, the key for which is in possession of the owners of
Grice's Wharf.
Resolved, upon the recommendation of the Committee—That a gate be erected at the
street entrance as suggested, and a key left at Grice's Wharf.