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Hammersmith Vestry appointed one member to the Metropolitan Board of Works. [a] In 1892/3 the vestry had an expenditure of £54,310 (equivalent to £7,608,568 in 2023). [9] The election of vestrymen was reformed by the Local Government Act 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) with the vestry election in December 1894 the first to use the new system. [10]
Fulham was a local government district within the metropolitan area of London, England from 1855 to 1886. It was formed by the Metropolis Management Act 1855 and was governed by the Fulham District Board of Works , which consisted of elected vestrymen from the parishes of Fulham and Hammersmith .
The borough was administered from Fulham Town Hall, on Fulham Broadway, in Walham Green. The hall had been built in 1888 – 1890 for the Fulham vestry, and was in the classical renaissance style. When the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham was formed, Hammersmith Town Hall was adopted as the administrative centre. Some offices remain at ...
Fulham (/ ˈ f ʊ l ə m /) is an ... [18] [19] By 1834 it had so many residents, a separate parish with a vicar (no longer a curate) and vestry for works was created.
Hammersmith was a civil parish in London, England, from 1834 to 1965.The hamlet of Hammersmith in the parish of Fulham had been governed by the Hammersmith Vestry following the construction of the chapel of St Paul's in 1629–1631.
The Fulham Vestry and Hammersmith Vestry continued to exist as a non-administrative vestries with their main responsibility to appoint members to the Fulham District Board of Works in June each year. 24 members of the district board came from the Hammersmith Vestry and 15 from the Fulham Vestry .
The borough was created in 1900 from the parish of Hammersmith, with the Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough Council replacing the Hammersmith Vestry. In 1965, the borough was abolished and became the northern part of the London Borough of Hammersmith, later renamed to the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in 1979.
He continued as a councillor of the new Fulham Borough Council in 1900. In 1901 he was elected mayor of the borough council, serving from 1901 to 1902. In 1903 he was appointed a borough alderman. [3] In 1901 he was elected to the London County Council as a Progressive Party candidate, gaining Fulham from the Conservative-backed Moderate party.