Improving Chiswick 1858-1883

The Commissioners at their new sewage works, April 1879 (LB Hounslow Local Studies Collection)

7.30pm, Monday 21 November 2016,
at the Chiswick Memorial Club,
Bourne Place, Chiswick, London W4

An illustrated talk by Tracey Logan on the Chiswick Improvement Commission, our first modern form of local government.

Her recent MRes in Historical Research has covered the story of a body born at a time of extraordinary local change then killed off by angry ratepayers.

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