Although 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…
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The lost logos of the London Boroughs
The “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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The tale of the GLC’s London Exhibition Centre at Northolt…
Who can resist the lure of an abandoned infrastructure project? The LCC and GLC provide rich material for fans of unrealised planning dreams and this is no exception – the tale of the exhibition centre that never was…
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Silver service
This is a post about street lighting in Croydon. Well, no one else is going to write it…
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Let’s move to Bracknell
In which I celebrate the life of one particular building. Not, I hasten to add, a masterpiece of the LCC Architects Department, or beloved public library, or brutalist municipal swimming pool. But rather a privately owned temple of consumer capitalism that is quite possibly of no architectural merit whatsoever…
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The Willesden Survey of 1949
I have a confession to make. I am in love with a 1940s planning document.
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Rediscovering the Tower Hamlets Neighbourhoods – Part 2
Local branding and a sense of local identity – the main pre-occupations of this site – were a key component of the Tower Hamlets Neighbourhood political experiment. So, what remains of them visually? Early in January 2017, I set out on a walk around the Borough to find out…
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Rediscovering the Tower Hamlets Neighbourhoods – Part 1
Remember the Tower Hamlets Neighbourhoods? As an experiment in political devolution they only lasted from 1986 to 1994, so you could be forgiven for having forgotten about them. Building a sense of neighbourhood identity was an essential element of the scheme and on a crisp and cold morning in January 2017, I went on a walk around Tower Hamlets to see what remained visually of the Neighbourhoods. Given that they had been abandoned 23 years earlier, I wasn’t hopeful of finding much…
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Welcome
Welcome to the LCCmunicipal site. As time permits I will add blogs to this site that go into more detail on the themes that I cover at my @lccmunicipal Twitter feed: the London County Council, the Greater London Council and the various Boroughs that made up pre- and post-1965 Greater London. I recently caught up…
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