The 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…
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Just Say No! Defining the Greater London boundary Part One
If you have ever wondered why the Greater London boundary is an odd shape, then here is the tale of how this eccentric border came into being…
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Full circle: Celebrating Hounslow Civic Centre
April 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…
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The naming of the London Boroughs: Part Three
Now 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…
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The naming of the London Boroughs: Part Two
The problem of double-barrelled names…
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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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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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