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The Penge Vestry favoured transfer to Surrey, ranking transfer to Kent or amalgamation with Croydon as the next preferred options. Amalgamation with Camberwell was the least preferred option. Issues raised during the enquiry included the rates , earlier pub closing hours outside London, the desire to remain in the Croydon poor law union and the ...
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]
Penge Common was an area of north east Surrey and north west Kent which now forms part of London, England; covering most of Penge, all of Anerley, and parts of surrounding suburbs including South Norwood. [1] It abutted the Great North Wood and John Rocque's 1745 map of London and its environs showed that Penge Common now included part of that ...
Harriet Staunton (née Richardson) died in a Penge lodging house on 13 April, five days after her one-year-old child, Thomas Staunton, died of malnutrition at Guy's Hospital. In September of the same year, Harriet's husband Louis Staunton was convicted of wilful murder at the Old Bailey together with his partner Alice Rhodes, his brother ...
Anerley Hill road with the Crystal Palace. Anerley began as a "new town" within the ancient hamlet of Penge. Prior to enclosure in 1827, what would later become known as Anerley, was an unoccupied part of Penge Common, that did not fully develop until the 1850s following the relocation of the Crystal Palace to Penge Place at the top of Sydenham Hill.
Saint John the Evangelist is the Church of England parish church of Penge (now in the London Borough of Bromley), in the Diocese of Rochester, Greater London. At the time of its erection, Penge was in Surrey and had been an exclave of Battersea. It is located on Penge High Street, and was erected 1847 to designs of architects Edwin Nash & J. N ...
Satirical cartoon of the select vestry of St. Paul's, Covent Garden. Thomas Jones 1828 Whilst the open vestry was a general meeting of all inhabitant rate-paying householders in a parish, [ 1 ] in the 17th century the huge growth of population in some parishes, mostly urban, made it increasingly difficult to convene and conduct meetings.