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The name was changed from the Greenwich Reading Room and Library Association to the Greenwich Library in 1907. [7] The library received funding from donations and a matched endowment from Milbank Anderson up until 1917, after which it was funded through a combination of private donations and public funding from taxpayers. [8]
Greenwich London Borough Council, also known as Greenwich Council or the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, [2] is the local authority for the Royal Borough of Greenwich in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour majority control since 1971.
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG; [1] known as the Old Royal Observatory from 1957 to 1998, when the working Royal Greenwich Observatory, RGO, temporarily moved south from Greenwich to Herstmonceux) is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north.
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Royal Museums Greenwich is an organisation comprising four museums in Greenwich, east London, illustrated below. The Royal Museums Greenwich Foundation is a Private Limited Company by guarantee without share capital use of 'Limited' exemption, company number 08002287, incorporated on 22 March 2012. [ 1 ]
Today the Royal Library collections comprise the documentary and intellectual heritage of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom and its predecessors, span nearly two-and-half millennia and comprise millions of pages, many unique, many encapsulating some of the most extraordinary moments in British history, and many items important in their own right.
Thamesmead (/ ˈ t ɛ m z m iː d /) is an area of south-east London, England, straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley.It is located 11 miles (18 km) east of Charing Cross, north-east of Woolwich and west of Erith.