please empty your brain below
Living in Twickenham in the 1950s and 60s I remember the discussions at the time. The people of Richmond did not want to live in a borough named Twickenham as they though they were more important than people the other side of the river in Twickenham. They won and the borough was named Richmond upon Thames, even though the council offices and civic centre all moved to Twickenham where they remain.

John | 04.01.17 - 7:25 a.m. | #

Pedants' corner:

"Metropolitan Boroughs", not "Metropolitan Districts".

dg writes: Noted, ta.

Bryn Davies | 04.01.17 - 9:16 a.m. | #

I bet it's Sutton first, right?

EonLeader | 04.01.17 - 9:59 a.m. | #

So what container replaces the jam jar? A casino shoe?

dg writes: It's a pack of (shuffled) cards.

Gordon | 04.01.17 - 10:50 a.m. | #

The name of the LB Richmond dichotomy leads to a lot of geographical confusion, with places like Twickenham and Hampton Court Palace often referred to as being in Surrey when they were never in that county. (To add to the confusion, Hampton Court Railway Station is in Surrey)

timbo | 04.01.17 - 10:57 a.m. | #

re John
It's still the same in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The people of Richmond i.e. Council Leader Lord True don't want to be associated with Twickenham and keep trying to spoil the area with their grandiose schemes e.g the monstrosity they wanted to put on Twickenham Riverside

Tones | 04.01.17 - 11:28 a.m. | #

I'm looking forward to your new challenge for 2017 but I hope you won't abandon the unlost rivers yet. There's still pleny of them to do and the reports of your walks along them are invariably fascinating.

Beckenham Boy | 04.01.17 - 11:30 a.m. | #

Very nice concept - look forward to following through the year!

Kevin | 04.01.17 - 11:49 a.m. | #

Hmm some of the boundaries of the "imaginary 52 boroughs" on that city metric website are wrong. The one I know and spotted first: the pre-1965 Borough of Dagenham stretched rather further north (and with a wider neck) than its post-1965 replacement- much of Hainault (now in Redbridge) was in the old Dagenham. I daresay other infelicities may exist there too....

dg writes: The map doesn't claim to be accurate. If you can create a better one...

Dominic H | 04.01.17 - 1:26 p.m. | #

A splendid map, just published by City Metric, showing how Greater London (1965) is imprinted across the surrounding historic counties: [map]

diamond geezer | Homepage | 04.01.17 - 2:02 p.m. | #

Blimey! Hats off to you for even thinking up these amazing challenges, let alone actually completing them!

Cornish Cockney | 04.01.17 - 4:38 p.m. | #

A little surprised to see you didn't put home on the Jack of Diamonds from your masthead.
(Also it took me a while to work out that Tower Hamlets on the CityMetric map is down as Bethnal Green/Poplar/Stepney)

I'm looking forward to this one though!

martin | 04.01.17 - 4:58 p.m. | #

The post now includes the Herbert Commission's map of its 52 boroughs, as scanned and emailed in by a reader. I love the map. Thanks Lucy!

diamond geezer | Homepage | 04.01.17 - 5:57 p.m. | #

Thanks for all that.

I was inspired to look up how and when Chessington became part of Surbiton borough (from Epsom & Ewell) and hence made Kingston it's present shape.

Mike D (in Surrey) | 04.01.17 - 10:00 p.m. | #

@Mike D (in Surrey)

Chessington was transferred from Epsom Rural District to Surbiton Urban District (the salient into Surrey that makes part of the present-day LB of Kingston) in 1933.

G | 11.01.17 - 8:54 a.m. | #











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