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I also transmit you, for the information of the Fire Brigade Committee, a plan of the
Parish of Rotherhithe, showing the site where the Fire Escape stood; the centre of the
"island" ; the distance from the said centre of the island on the north side to the Fire Station
in Gomm Road to be 1½ miles ; and the distance from the centre of the island on the
south side to the Fire Station in Gomm Road to be over 1¾ miles.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
JAMES J. STOKES,
Clerk to the Yestry.
The Clerk,
London County Council.
Copy memorial referred to.
THE MEMORIAL of the Yestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe, in the Administrative
County of London, to the London County Council, praying them to at once reinstate
the Fire Escape in the neighbourhood of Bickley Row, recently removed therefrom, and to
establish a small Fire Engine Station in a central position between Surrey Lock and Lady
Dock Bridges, Rotherhithe Street:
SHEWETH: —
1. That a Fire Escape and Watch-Box have for many years stood upon the premises of
the authorities of the Norwegian Church in Bickley Row, Rotherhithe, creating in the
minds of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood a feeling of security in the event of a
fire breaking out therein.
2. That the authorities before mentioned, requiring the use of the site, having given
notice to the Council to remove the said Fire Escape and Watch-Box therefrom, the
Council have decided to discontinue, and, in fact, have already discontinued, the
Escape Station in question.
3. That the Yestry was not afforded an opportunity of placing its views upon the subject
before the Council until the removal of the Escape was an accomplished fact, and
then only upon application.
4. That the nearest Station where a Horsed Escape is kept is distant one and a quarter
miles from Bickley Row, and that the rule of the Council has hitherto been not to
abandon any Fire Escape Station distant more than a mile from a Fire Station where
a Horsed Escape is kept.