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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]
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 .
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 ...
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Ward Map, 2002-present. Fulham is the southern part of the borough. Fulham (/ ˈ f ʊ l ə m /) is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, 3.6 miles (5.8 km) southwest of Charing Cross.
Hammersmith originated as a hamlet within the ancient parish of Fulham, with All Saints Church as the parish church. [1]In 1629, inhabitants of Hammersmith, including the Earl of Mulgrave and Nicholas Crispe, successfully petitioned the Bishop of London for a chapel of ease to be built at St Paul's Church.
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.
This is a list of local authorities in London, England, from 1855 to 1900.There were some changes to their number between 1886 and 1894. Following the changes there were 42 authorities responsible for local government, made up of 29 administrative vestries, 12 district boards and one local board of health.