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    The Hammersmith Vestry was the vestry of Hammersmith from c.1631 to 1900. The vestry was established following the building of a chapel of ease for the...
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    in 1900 from the parish of Hammersmith, with the Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough Council replacing the Hammersmith Vestry. In 1965, the borough was abolished...
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  • The final election to the Hammersmith Vestry took place on Tuesday 30 May 1899. Vestrymen were elected for three years (to go out of office in 1902). The...
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  • Fulham District Board of Works (category London vestries and district boards)
    Metropolitan Board of Works. The Fulham Vestry and Hammersmith Vestry continued to exist as a non-administrative vestries with their main responsibility to...
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    had been governed by the Hammersmith Vestry following the construction of the chapel of St Paul's in 1629–1631. The Hammersmith Parish Act 1834 made formal...
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  • Hammersmith Council could refer to: Hammersmith Vestry, 1834 to 1900 Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough Council, 1900 to 1965 Hammersmith London Borough...
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  • 1897 to 1965. It was owned and operated by the Hammersmith Vestry and then the Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough Council until the nationalisation of the...
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    it was granted to the Bishop of London. The chapelry of Hammersmith was given its own vestry in 1631, making it a separate civil parish from Fulham. From...
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  • Battersea Vestry (1888) Fulham Vestry (1886) Hackney Vestry (1894) Hammersmith Vestry (1886) Lee District Board of Works (1894) Plumstead Vestry (1894) Stoke...
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    use the existing town hall at Walham Green, while Hammersmith Vestry built a town hall at Hammersmith Broadway. In 1889, the Local Government Act replaced...
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    Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith") was established and incorporated as a body corporate, replacing the Hammersmith Vestry. The London Government Act...
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    completed for the Hammersmith Vestry in 1897. It had become the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith in 1900. After the old town hall...
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  • previous Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough Council and the earlier Hammersmith Vestry; the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley covering the town of Barnsley...
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    Hammersmith Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the River Thames in west London. It links the southern part of Hammersmith in the London Borough...
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    the Fulham vestry, and was in the classical renaissance style. When the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham was formed, Hammersmith Town Hall was...
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    administration was in the hands of a select vestry until the parish adopted the Vestries Act 1831. The vestry was reformed again in 1855 by the Metropolis...
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    chapelry developed its own independent vestry. The act enacted that, on the passing of the act: The Hamlet of Hammersmith should become a distinct parish for...
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    The Clerkenwell Vestry was the vestry of Clerkenwell from c.16th century until 1900. The vestry had growing secular authority over the parish with the...
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    known as a select vestry, was dominated by members of the British nobility until the parish adopted the Vestries Act 1831. The vestry was reformed again...
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    Act 1888, the lower tier of local government still consisted of elective vestries and District boards of works created in 1855 by the Metropolis Management...
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    ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, governed by an administrative vestry. The parish was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan...
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    station was Sloane Square. The population recorded in the Census was: Chelsea Vestry 1801–1899 Metropolitan Borough 1900–1961 The borough was granted a coat...
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    Thomas Chamberlen (category Members of Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough Council)
    Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith from 1900 to 1902. Chamberlen entered local politics in 1872 as member of both Hammersmith Vestry. In June 1884, Chamberlen...
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    Ravenscourt Park (category Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham)
    £58,000. It was acquired by the Metropolitan Board of Works (the Hammersmith Vestry contributing half the purchase-money) on 20 November 1887. The Board...
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    borough in 1900, following the London Government Act 1899, with the parish vestry replaced by a borough council. The ancient parish was divided into the six...
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    carved out between 1645 and 1724 to create new parishes: In 1855, the parish vestry became a local authority within the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan...
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  • The St Luke's Vestry was the vestry of St Luke's, an urbanised parish north of the City of London, from 1733 until 1900. The vestry had growing secular...
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    ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, governed by an administrative vestry. The parish was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan...
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    Victoria, in accordance with her wishes. It bordered Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith, Paddington, and Westminster. It included Kensington, South Kensington...
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    an ancient parish in the county of Surrey, governed by an administrative vestry from 1674. The parish was included in the area of responsibility of the...
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