tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518232392780308567.post3941952567878265961..comments2024-02-06T07:18:51.137+00:00Comments on The Family Recorder: Those Places Thursday - what do you mean by 'London'?Audrey Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17109060807297085410noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4518232392780308567.post-79890969955798794762012-02-17T14:48:45.697+00:002012-02-17T14:48:45.697+00:00Good try, but:-
- the GLC included for the first ...Good try, but:-<br /><br />- the GLC included for the first time some of south-<b>west</b> Essex.<br />- the GLC did not take the <b>whole</b> of the remainder of Middlesex: Staines and Sunbury Urban Districts went to Surrey, and Potters Bar UD went to Hertfordshire.<br />- more debatably, the southern and eastern portions of Middlesex were after 1853 "in but not of" that county - the administration of services in areas being in the hands of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The same was true of some areas south of the river previously regarded as part of Kent and Surrey. The General Register Office regarded these areas as "London" - they made up the new Volume 1 for BMD records up until 1946 (Kent and Surrey proper were in Volume 2 and Middlesex in Volume 3)<br /><br />The really frustrating thing I find is that there is no easily available map overlay which shows where boundaries lay at a given point in time (say for the period of 1900-65 with LCC and Metropolitan Boroughs).Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09194881271051758232noreply@blogger.com