The Metropolitan Board of Works, 1855-1889
Author | : Dorothy Maxine Corlett |
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Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1943 |
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Author | : Dorothy Maxine Corlett |
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Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1943 |
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Author | : David S. Elliott |
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Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : Gloria Christine Clifton |
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Total Pages | : 1158 |
Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : David Edward Owen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674358850 |
Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes or precincts plus divers ad hoc authorities or commissions. In 1855, with the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the groundwork began to be laid for a rational municipal government. Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames Embankments--before it was replaced in 1889 by the London County Council. His account, based on extensive archival research, is balanced, judicious, lucid, often witty and always urbane.
Author | : R. Bruce Pruitt |
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Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Typewritten essay for History 242r, given in the fall term of 1966-1967 by Professor David E. Owen.
Author | : Metropolitan Board of Works (London, England) |
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Total Pages | : 1126 |
Release | : 1860 |
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Author | : Metropolitan Board of Works (London, England). |
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Release | : 1888 |
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Author | : Metropolitan Board of Works (London, England) |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1855 |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1860 |
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Author | : Gloria Clifton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474241220 |
This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy. As the predecessor of the London County Council, the Metropolitan Board of Works was an important body and its officials formed a large and significant professional group, not hitherto studied in such depth.