Southwark Committee

A ward committee whose councillor keeps notes and memoranda on ward business, including the disputed accounts rendered by the Brethren's houses.

A committee that asked for a labouring household's budget and would not believe the poor pay into burial clubs. A Southwark committee whose councillor has written on what the crossing costs a poor traveller.

Named with it

• Councillor Agnes Bell · councillor

Ties

• disputes the Brethren's attendance accounts

At the table

Agnes Bell's committee world is felt through notices and recommendations on Marsh Square; a hiring board there can matter more to a beginning company than a noble name. According to Bell, the committee has never been shown the cost of the fortnight's waiting at each end of the crossing. An example of the capital's committees misunderstanding the poor.