If you’re going to do something, do it properly, right?
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If you’re going to do something, do it properly, right?
Read MoreThere is often great pleasure to be had when you open a book and something unexpected falls out of it…
Read MoreThe Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London thought Epsom & Ewell should be part of Greater London. So did the Government. The local residents had other ideas…
Read MoreApril 2019 sees the closure of Hounslow Civic Centre after 44 years of service and I was lucky enough to go on a tour of this great building in its final month…
Read MoreNow it is time to consider the final bunch of authorities for whom no local agreement on proposed names was reached, leaving a series of squabbles of varying degrees of intensity…
Read MoreThe problem of double-barrelled names…
Read MoreHere is a tale of political expediency, Civil Service pragmatism, frequent local outrage and, in one particular instance, Establishment stitch up…
Read MoreWhen an email arrived from the London Society offering the chance to tour Hackney Town Hall, I found myself booked on it within three minutes. Here are some pictures from its fabulous refurbishment…
Read MoreAlthough I had often travelled past the old Camberwell Town Hall on the bus as I made my way to work, I had never set foot in it until recently…
Read MoreThe “lost logos of the London Boroughs” – my somewhat indirect tribute to all those who have served the London Boroughs over the past fifty plus years…
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