On Jun 3, 11:00*am, Peter Heather wrote:
On Jun 3, 9:09*am, e27002 wrote:

On Jun 2, 10:39*pm, "Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
e27002 wrote:
**However, until
1996 the mailing address was CHESSINGTON, Surrey. *And, many residents
think of themselves as part of Surrey. *None-the-less, they pay
Council Tax to the GLA.

This would be well and good if they had voted to become Londoners.
They never did. *In 1974 they simply woke up within the GLC.

Actually it was 1965. And I'm not sure it was that much of a surprise.
Further east, Caterham and Warlingham UDC succesfully campaigned to be
left out of Greater London, only to be swallowed up into the
ridiculously named Tandridge District in 1974. Pity really as I would
be entitled to a Freedom Pass by now and our roads would be maintained
to a higher standard than the pathetic Surrey County Council manage.

Not part of the 1975 Local Government re-organizations then?

The new mega boroughs and districts are awful. Bognor Regis is now
run from Littlehampton. Like Littlehampton gives a damn.

We lost the borough of Paddington (to the City of Westminster).
Nonsense, all of it.