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11. Therefore your Memorialists ask that they may be allowed to send three or more
of their Members to the London County Council as a Deputation, to urge upon the
Council the necessity of the Fire Escape recently removed from the neighbourhood
of Bickley Row, Rotherhithe, being at once reinstated; and that having regard to
the urgency of the matter, they may attend the next meeting of the Fire Brigade
Committee.
The Common Seal of the Yestry of the
Parish of Rotherhithe, in the Administrative
County of London, affixed by Order,.
JAMES J. STOKES,
Clerk to the Yestry.
Spring Gardens, S.W..
25th October, 1898.
Sir,
Referring to previous correspondence on the subject of the removal of the Fire Escape
until recently stationed in Bickley Row, I write to say that the Fire Brigade Committee,
having been informed by Mr. Glanville that the Yestry of Rotherhithe desires to attend
by Deputation on the subject, will be prepared to receive a small deputation here at 4 p.m.
on Thursday, 3rd November.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
C. J. STEWART,
Clerk of the Council.
The Clerk of the Yestiy of Rotherhithe.
Spring Gardens, S.W.,
7th November 1898.
Sir,
Referring to previous correspondence on the subject of the removal of the Fire Escape
until recently stationed in Bickley Row, Rotherhithe, and to the Memorial in support of
which a Deputation from the Yestry attended at the last meeting of the Fire Brigade
Committee, I have to inform you that the Committee having fully discussed the subject after
inspecting the locality, has decided that the consideration of the question of again stationing
a Fire Escape at the spot in question shall be reconsidered on the completion of
the new road now in course of construction between Deptford Road Railway Station and
Lady Dock Bridge. In the meantime, however, instructions have been given for providing
near each of the three Fire Alarms in Rotherhithe Street what is known in the fire Bri-