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The council's full legal name is "The Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets", but it styles itself Tower Hamlets Council. [5] [6] From 1965 until 1986 the council was a lower-tier authority, with upper-tier functions provided by the Greater London Council.
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]
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.
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 .
Idea Store is a chain of educational community centres in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England, that offer library services along with adult learning courses and extensive activities and events programmes. [1] The project was initiated in 1999 by Tower Hamlets Council. [2]
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: Bow West (2) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour: Joshua Peck : 2,439 : 51.84 : Labour: Asma Begum : 1,996 : 42.42 : Tower Hamlets First: Jainal Chowdhury 702 14.98 Conservative: Matt Smith 627 13.33 Independent: Anwar Khan 619 13.16 Green: Louise Whitmore 559 11.88 Green: Alistair Polson 552 ...