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    The Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW) was the upper tier of local government for London between 1856 and 1889, primarily responsible for upgrading infrastructure...
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  • The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) was a public utility board in Melbourne, Australia, set up in 1891 to provide water supply, sewerage...
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  • This is a list of the various heads of local government organisations that have served London, England. The Metropolitan Board of Works, created in 1855...
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  • Board of Works may refer to Metropolitan Board of Works, a former governmental department overseeing public works in London, UK Ministry of Works of imperial...
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    from the Metropolitan Board of Works. Eventually, however, it absorbed functions from ad-hoc agencies such the London School Board and Metropolitan Asylums...
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    act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that created the Metropolitan Board of Works, a London-wide body to co-ordinate the construction of the city's...
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    the county of Middlesex, but included in the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works. In 1889 the area of the MBW was constituted the County of London, and...
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    The Metropolitan Board of Works (Loans) Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 102) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated and amended...
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  • It was absorbed by the Metropolitan Board of Works on 1 January 1856. The commission was formed by the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers Act 1848 (11 &...
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    area of the modern borough had historically been part of the county of Middlesex. From 1856 the area was governed by the Metropolitan Board of Works, which...
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  • Fulham District Board of Works. This coincided with the parishes becoming part of the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The Fulham...
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    the metropolitan area of London, England. It was formed as a district of the Metropolis in 1855 and became a metropolitan borough in the County of London...
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    Joseph Bazalgette (category Metropolitan Board of Works)
    civil engineer. As Chief Engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewerage system for central London...
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  • This is a list of the members of the Metropolitan Board of Works, London, 1855-1889. Members of the board were not elected by the general public, but were...
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    Inner London (category Geography of the City of London)
    used as an area of local government from 1855 to 1965 principally as the County of London or earlier as the Metropolitan Board of Works Area (metropolis)...
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    responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and became part of the County of London in 1889. The parish of Lambeth became a metropolitan borough...
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    came under the Metropolitan Board of Works for certain infrastructure purposes, while remaining a part of Middlesex. and the Metropolitan Police also developed...
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    metropolis of London. In 1889 the Metropolitan Board of Works' area was made the County of London. From 1856 until 1900 the lower tier of local government...
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    supply purposes. In 1891, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) was a public utility board in Melbourne, set up to provide water supply...
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    became part of the Metropolitan Police District in 1829. From 1856 the area of the modern borough was governed by the Metropolitan Board of Works, which was...
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    Thames Embankment (category Streets in the City of Westminster)
    south side of the river, opposite the Millbank section of the Thames Embankment. It was created by Bazalgette for the Metropolitan Board of Works and built...
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    19th-century London (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of December 2024)
    with its growth. The MBW was London's first metropolitan government body. The Metropolitan Board of Works was not a directly elected body, which made...
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    London sewer system (category Metropolitan Board of Works)
    of the problem and resolved to create a modern sewerage system. Joseph Bazalgette, a civil engineer and Chief Engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works...
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    County of London was created covering the area which had been administered by the Metropolitan Board of Works since 1856, which covered the City of London...
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    of the sewerage system. The Metropolis Management Act 1855 replaced the commission with the Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW), which took control of the...
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    previously existing civil parish of St Marylebone, Middlesex, which was incorporated into the Metropolitan Board of Works area in 1855, retaining a parish...
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    the church of St Matthew, Bethnal Green, was dedicated in 1746. The vestry became an electing authority to the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and...
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    Victoria Embankment (category Streets in the City of Westminster)
    1861. Following acceptance of the designs, construction was carried out by the Metropolitan Board of Works on the lines of his scheme. Construction, which...
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  • District Board of Works, which consisted of elected vestrymen. It was in the part of the county of Middlesex that was within the area of the Metropolitan Board...
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    The Metropolitan Water Board was a municipal body formed in 1903 to manage the water supply in London, UK. The members of the board were nominated by...
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