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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 ...
Until 1965, Poplar had its own council which was based at Poplar Town Hall. [34] Since 1965, the area has formed part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, with its council based at Mulberry Place. [35] The council moved to a new Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel Road on 1 March 2023. [36]
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: Shadwell (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Tower Hamlets First: Rabina Khan: 2,199 : 48.88 : Tower Hamlets First: Harun Miah : 2,192 : 48.72 : Labour: Mamun Rashid 1,462 32.50 Labour: Farhana Zaman 892 19.83 Green: Katy Guttmann 354 7.87 Conservative: Des Ellerbeck 337 7.49 Liberal Democrats ...
2014 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election: St Katharine's and Wapping (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative: Julia Dockerill: 1,278 : 34.19 : Labour: Denise Jones : 1,208 : 32.32 : Conservative: Neil King 1,156 30.93 Labour: Robert Scott 956 25.58 Tower Hamlets First: Ahad Miah 547 14.63 Green: John Venpin 440 11.77 Tower ...
The estate was designed by Gordon Tait of the Worshipful Company of Masons, and built by Tersons Ltd for the London County Council in two phases, commencing in 1965. Work was completed by the Greater London Council and the estate subsequently became part of the Tower Hamlets council housing stock. Upon completion in 1967, the total cost of ...
Tower Hamlets was an electoral division for the purposes of elections to the Greater London Council. The constituency elected two councillors for a three-year term in 1964, 1967, and 1970. The constituency elected two councillors for a three-year term in 1964, 1967, and 1970.