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The London Borough of Tower Hamlets and its council were created under the London Government Act 1963, with the first election held in 1964. [3] For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's three outgoing authorities, being the three metropolitan borough councils of Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney.
The earliest reference to the name "Tower Hamlets" was in 1554, when the Council of the Tower of London ordered a muster of "men of the hamlets which owe their service to the tower". This covered a wider area than the present-day borough, and its military relationship with the Tower is thought to have been several centuries earlier than the ...
Mulberry Place, formerly Tower Hamlets Town Hall, is a building in Nutmeg Lane, Blackwall, London. It was the headquarters of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council from 1992 to 2023, before their relocation to the new Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel Road .
An east London council is rolling out its replacement winter fuel payment after the government changed the criteria, meaning millions of pensioners no longer qualify. Tower Hamlets Council is ...
The building ceased to be the local seat of government when the council moved to the new town hall in Bow Street in 1938. [9] The old town hall remained in council ownership, being used as a district housing centre from 1986, until Tower Hamlets London Borough Council sold it to a developer, Dreamstar Limited, in 2011. It was subsequently ...
Tower Hamlets Town Hall is a municipal facility in Whitechapel Road, Whitechapel, London. The new structure, which has been commissioned as the headquarters of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council , incorporates the façade of the old Royal London Hospital which is a Grade II listed building .
The City of London Corporation built tenements in the Farringdon Road in 1865, [1] but this was an isolated instance. The first council to build housing as an integrated policy was Liverpool Corporation, [2] starting with St Martin's Cottages in Ashfield Street, Vauxhall, completed in 1869. [3]
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