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in the
Metropolis Management Act 1855. The district boards and administrative vestries had identical powers, but different methods of election. The administrative vestries were directly elected and the district boards were appointed by non-administrative vestries. The equivalent body for the City of
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The following were non-administrative vestries. They had very limited functions, with their main purpose to appoint members to the district boards of works. They were delineated as the
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c. 120). They functioned from 1855 to 1900, unless otherwise stated. The administrative vestries were delineated as the
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The following became administrative vestries or district boards as shown.
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in the
Metropolis Management Act 1855 and were also known as the
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Abolished in 1895 to became part of St
Botolph without Aldgate
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St Andrew
Holborn Above the Bars with St George the Martyr
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Merged in 1896 to form
Southwark St Olave and St Thomas
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Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents, and Ely Place
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24:Administrative vestries and district boards
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308:Westminster St Margaret and St John Vestry
28:The following were the local authorities
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16:This is a list of local authorities in
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218:Southwark St George the Martyr Vestry
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489:Westminster St Margaret (until 1887)
208:St Saviour's District Board of Works
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867:Westminster St Margaret and St John
244:Whitechapel District Board of Works
233:Westminster District Board of Works
228:Wandsworth District Board of Works
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898:Metropolitan Commission of Sewers
152:Plumstead District Board of Works
132:Limehouse District Board of Works
91:Greenwich District Board of Works
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492:Westminster St John (until 1887)
198:St Olave District Board of Works
178:St Giles District Board of Works
127:Lewisham District Board of Works
168:St George Hanover Square Vestry
107:Holborn District Board of Works
96:Hackney District Board of Works
980:Metropolis Management Act 1855
857:Southwark St George the Martyr
716:Headquarters at Spring Gardens
249:Woolwich Local Board of Health
223:Strand District Board of Works
188:St Martin in the Fields Vestry
158:Poplar District Board of Works
85:Fulham District Board of Works
34:Metropolis Management Act 1855
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893:Metropolitan Buildings Office
450:Southwark St John Horsleydown
468:Stoke Newington (until 1894)
173:St George in the East Vestry
45:London at this time was the
615:Metropolitan Board of Works
316:Non-administrative vestries
290:Lee District Board of Works
239:Westminster St James Vestry
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995:London Government Act 1899
574:The London Manual for 1901
417:St Botolph without Aldgate
990:Local Government Act 1888
903:Metropolitan Fire Brigade
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822:St George Hanover Square
369:Hammersmith (until 1886)
137:Mile End Old Town Vestry
837:St Martin-in-the-Fields
47:Commissioners of Sewers
459:Southwark Christchurch
426:St Giles in the Fields
399:Plumstead (until 1894)
333:Battersea (until 1888)
302:Stoke Newington Vestry
934:Northumberland Avenue
827:St George in the East
724:Incorporated vestries
576:. Edward Lloyd. 1901.
438:St Paul Covent Garden
872:Westminster St James
462:Southwark St Saviour
429:St George Bloomsbury
393:Old Artillery Ground
366:Hackney (until 1894)
348:Deptford St Nicholas
256:Later incorporations
193:St Marylebone Vestry
65:Bethnal Green Vestry
929:London sewer system
548:The London Vestries
486:Westminster St Anne
456:Southwark St Thomas
357:Fulham (until 1886)
322:Schedule B vestries
53:1855 incorporations
42:Schedule A vestries
1021:James McGarel-Hogg
1016:Frederick Marrable
949:Shaftesbury Avenue
924:Hammersmith Bridge
919:Charing Cross Road
453:Southwark St Olave
284:Hammersmith Vestry
163:Rotherhithe Vestry
80:Clerkenwell Vestry
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954:Thames Embankment
797:Mile End Old Town
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435:St Mary le Strand
384:Mile End New Town
213:Shoreditch Vestry
203:St Pancras Vestry
147:Paddington Vestry
117:Kensington Vestry
70:Camberwell Vestry
60:Bermondsey Vestry
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351:Deptford St Paul
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296:Plumstead Vestry
266:Battersea Vestry
235:(dissolved 1887)
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142:Newington Vestry
112:Islington Vestry
102:Hampstead Vestry
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441:St Sepulchre
432:St Katherine
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968:Legislation
912:Major works
817:Rotherhithe
772:Hammersmith
757:Clerkenwell
701:Whitechapel
696:Westminster
495:Whitechapel
1051:Categories
852:Shoreditch
847:St Pancras
807:Paddington
787:Kensington
747:Camberwell
737:Bermondsey
691:Wandsworth
533:References
480:Wandsworth
832:St Luke's
812:Plumstead
802:Newington
782:Islington
777:Hampstead
732:Battersea
661:Limehouse
636:Greenwich
558:5 January
471:Streatham
381:Limehouse
372:Kidbrooke
363:Greenwich
877:Woolwich
676:St Olave
671:St Giles
656:Lewisham
447:Shadwell
408:Ratcliff
387:Minories
378:Lewisham
342:Charlton
792:Lambeth
767:Hackney
752:Chelsea
646:Holborn
641:Hackney
483:Wapping
345:Clapham
339:Bromley
32:by the
1004:People
762:Fulham
686:Strand
666:Poplar
631:Fulham
405:Putney
402:Poplar
354:Eltham
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18:London
552:(PDF)
501:Notes
477:Tower
444:Savoy
411:Rolls
396:Penge
560:2023
375:Lee
336:Bow
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