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From 1856 until 1900 the lower tier of local government within the metropolis comprised various parish vestries and district boards. [4] In 1900 the lower tier was reorganised into metropolitan boroughs , three of which were Bermondsey , Camberwell and Southwark , each with a borough council.
The proposed development combined the refurbishment of some Victorian warehouses with the construction of a modern six-storey office block behind the warehouses. [1] [2] [a] The site was assembled by the developer, Great Portland Estates, at a cost of £19 million in 2004 [5] [6] and the building was forward sold to UBS Global Asset Management for £94 million, before works started, in June 2006.
Montague Close is a street in London, England, close to London Bridge in London SE1, [1] within the London Borough of Southwark. [2] The Worshipful Company of Glaziers is located here. [3] To the south are Southwark Cathedral and Borough Market.
The postcode area originated in 1857 as the SE district. In 1868 it gained some of the area of the short-lived S district, with the rest going to SW.It was divided into numbered districts in 1917, by giving the district closest to London that hosted the head office the suffix "1" and all others alphabetically based on a locally important parish, chapelry, topological or built environment ...
Old Kent Road [a] is a major thoroughfare in South East London, England, passing through the London Borough of Southwark.It was originally part of an ancient trackway that was paved by the Romans and used by the Anglo-Saxons who named it Wæcelinga Stræt (Watling Street).
23), allowed for the local parishioners to set up another market on a new site, and in 1756, it began again on a 4.5-acre (18,000 m 2) site in Rochester Yard. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] During the 19th century, it became one of London's most important food markets due to its strategic position near the riverside wharves of the Pool of London .
[8] Sir Joseph Lyons was born at 50 Lant Street on 29 December 1847. [ 9 ] Lyons was a self-made businessman and went on to own the Lyons Cornerhouses , a chain of tea shops run by J. Lyons and Co. , established in 1887.
The London postal district is the area in England of 241 square miles (620 km 2) to which mail addressed to the London post town is delivered. The General Post Office under the control of the Postmaster General directed Sir Rowland Hill to devise the area in 1856 and throughout its history it has been subject to reorganisation and division into increasingly smaller postal units, with the early ...