please empty your brain below
Twickenham people claimed that the borough should be called Twickenham because it had the largest population, and was known because of the Rugby stadium.
The well-heeled in Richmond won the day, but they did put the Civic centre for Richmond upon Thames in Twickenham!
A tiny bit of Kent north of the river.
(probably not any space to show it, thought)
Some of those naming decisions do seem odd - Uxbridge is much bigger than Hillingdon, for example. But it is a shame we lost out on some of the others, especially the Royal Borough of Charlton!
The residents of Haringey generally hated the new name of their Borough, which is an ancient derivative of Hornsey. They also tended to say Harin- gey (as in geese) rather than the "gay" of the more usual Harringay. Nobody, except perhaps Janet Street-Porter, had ever said Hornsay..
An interesting account can be read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
His...ingay#Etymology
Something that still irritates me even now, is how "Camden" has become common usage. Before 1965 the term "Camden" as a place name wasn't used. If you asked someone where they lived, they either said Camden Town or St Pancras; Hampstead or Holborn.
Lastly, Tower Hamlets also sounded very strange.. it was a very old name, but had fallen out of use by the 1960s.
It's interesting to think that had Cheshunt been switched from a nice provincial Hertfordshire town to a London district north of Enfield, the canoe slalom for the 2012 Olympics would now technically be in Greater London.
You mean the GLC was really an April Fool, & people believed it, & Red Ken got elected on it, & Mrs Thatcher had the boundaries redrawn to get rid of him, & he came back again as Mayor, etc etc etc for years?
Some April Fool!
http://www.londonbusroutes.net/
m...egs.htm#council
East Ham HN HV
West Ham AN JD
Croydon BY OY RK VB
it goes back to the 16th and early 17th centuries. See the entry in The London Encylopaedia (Macmillan) (recommended). Later used for a parliamentary borough until WW1. But both E7 and E17 were waaaay outside the original hamlets of the tower,which reached Bromley and Bow at their eastern extremity. Probably just street names with historical interest.
DG....... there were 21 Hamlets of the Tower listed by Strype in 1721. (same reference). Should help you out next week!
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