London County Council / Greater London Council / Boroughs of Greater London pre and post 1965
Saturday 13th June saw the 213 heritage bus running day, organised by the London Bus Museum. The route has run between Sutton and Kingston in one form or another since 1921, initially as the 113, and then as the 213 from 1934. Having grown up in the area, and still living locally, the 213 [ ]
Mention Hilversum, and people of a certain age will probably think of the radio. That was my first encounter with the place, listed alongside Luxembourg, Sottens, the BBC and others on the dial of my grandparents’ old radio set. Hilversum was, and remains, the centre of the Dutch national broadcasting system and that is surely [ ]
Let me introduce you to a wonderful little planning consultation document from the late 1940s called Mind Your Own Middlesex . But first Middlesex. Like many childhood first impressions of unfamiliar places, my formative experiences of Middlesex came from looking out of the car window. And those impressions were disproportionately influenced by two regular(ish) routes: flogging [ ]
If you’re going to do something, do it properly, right?
There is often great pleasure to be had when you open a book and something unexpected falls out of it...
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...
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...
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...
I have long enjoyed collecting school (and other) certificates from the London County Council. For some reason, I always find myself strangely moved by them - they offer little glimpses into the proud and hard earned achievements of persons unknown...
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...