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Provision was made for Penge to be combined with either the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell or the Metropolitan Borough of Lewisham in the County of London, to be combined with the County Borough of Croydon, or to form an urban district in the counties of Surrey or Kent. A local enquiry took place on 26/27 October 1899 at the Penge Vestry Hall.
This is a list of local authorities in London, England, from 1855 to 1900.There were some changes to their number between 1886 and 1894. Following the changes there were 42 authorities responsible for local government, made up of 29 administrative vestries, 12 district boards and one local board of health.
The building became the headquarters of the new Penge Urban District formed in 1900, [7] and was significantly extended by the creation of three extra bays to the northwest at a cost of £3,229 to incorporate a council chamber and committee rooms in 1911. [8] Further changes were made to create a courtroom for petty sessions in 1925. [8]
A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government of a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies, which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquially as the "vestry". At their height, the vestries were the only form of local government in many places ...
Penge formed a part of the parish of Battersea, with the historic county boundary between Kent and Surrey forming its eastern boundary. [16] In 1855 both parts of the parish were included in the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works, with Penge Hamlet Vestry electing six members to the Lewisham District Board of Works. [17]
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Anerley Vestry Hall (later Anerley Town Hall) was built in 1878 for the sum of £4,341, to conduct public business for the exclave Hamlet of Penge in the Parish of Battersea. [11] It became a Town Hall in 1900 as a result of the London Government Act 1899, when Anerley became part of the new Penge Urban District in Kent. The Hall was enlarged ...
While an elected London County Council had been created by the Local Government Act 1888, the lower tier of local government still consisted of elective vestries and District boards of works created in 1855 by the Metropolis Management Act 1855, responsible for local drainage, paving, lighting, street repairs, the removal of nuisances etc. [1] In addition, there were a number of areas outside ...