London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority
The body that governs the London Fire Brigade, responsible to the Mayor of London.
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London Hydraulic Power Company
Set up to install a network of water mains that would deliver hydraulic power through the use of water under high pressure, water from the Thames. The network extended from Hyde Park to Docklands ...
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Gardening colleagues of Kevin Davis
Gardening colleagues of Kevin Davis.
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Metropolitan Asylums Board
A campaign by Florence Nightingale and Edwin Chadwick led to the establishment of this board. It dealt with London's sick poor (but excluding those in Penge, for some reason), those with infectio...
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German internees at Alexandra Palace - WW1
These were not members of the German armed forces, they were Germans living in the UK, civilians who were considered to be enemy aliens and thus needed to be locked up for the duration. Their Engli...
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London Borough of Merton
Formed under the London Government Act 1963, by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham, the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District, all formerly within Surrey.
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J.A.P. Engineering
Company founded by John Alfred Prestwich. Its engines were used in many famous motorcycle marques and speedway bikes, early aeroplanes, chainsaws, cultivators and light rail maintenance trucks.
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Brent Council
London Borough. Formed from the Municipal Boroughs of Wembley and Willesden of Middlesex. Its name derives from the River Brent which runs through the borough.
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