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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 ...
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 ...
The lending library vacated the building in 2005 with the opening of the first Idea Store in Whitechapel. [2] In 2008 the Library and Archives were then under threat from a proposal to close the library. A community campaign was started to save the library with a meeting held on 27 September 2008 to urge Councillors not to proceed with the plans.
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 .
2014 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election: Weavers (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour: Abdul Mukit : 1,237 : 30.79 : Labour: John Pierce : 1,223 : 30.45 : Tower Hamlets First: Kabir Ahmed 1,214 30.22 Tower Hamlets First: Yousuf Khan 1,128 28.08 Green: Chris Smith 557 13.87 Green: Maureen Childs 527 13.12 UKIP: Pauline McQueen 316 7 ...
2014 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election: Spitalfields and Banglatown (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Tower Hamlets First: Gulam Robbani : 1,955 : 48.58 : Tower Hamlets First: Suluk Ahmed : 1,743 : 43.32 : Labour: Helal Abbas 1,215 30.19 Labour: Tarik Khan 1,015 25.22 Green: Zachary Thornton 485 12.05 Conservative: Jane Emmerson 349 8 ...
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 .