Secondary Debate - Kingston: London or Surrey?

[Albion Rob]

Can't be bothered to do a poll but just wondering which it is.

Conventionally, I would think London but Surrey CC has its HQ there and it appears as Surrey on letters.

Confusing.

 

[dwayne]

Slurrey

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Village in Sussex near Lewes

 

[Trufflehound]

Jamaica

mon

 

[Hampden Park]

Jamaica

no, she came on her own accord

 

[Trufflehound]

Jamaica

no, she came on her own accord

The old ones are the best.




...which doesn't say much for the new ones.

 

[Hampden Park]

The old ones are the best.




...which doesn't say much for the new ones.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Can't be bothered to do a poll but just wondering which it is.

Conventionally, I would think London but Surrey CC has its HQ there and it appears as Surrey on letters.

Confusing.

I used to go regularly to Surrey County Hall for meetings. The place is a classic local government building - full of dark corridors and brown wooden doors.

Surrey County Council have been promising for years that they would move their HQ into the county. But they've never done so, and I guess they can't even agree which town to put it in. I suppose Guildford would be favourite.

Kingston, though, is so much easier to reach (unless you live in Surrey!) and is a much more civilised place than any of the other possible locations. So I guess that this oddity will be with us for a few more years.

 

[Albion Rob]

Re: Re: Secondary Debate - Kingston: London or Surrey?

I used to go regularly to Surrey County Hall for meetings. The place is a classic local government building - full of dark corridors and brown wooden doors.

Surrey County Council have been promising for years that they would move their HQ into the county. But they've never done so, and I guess they can't even agree which town to put it in. I suppose Guildford would be favourite.

Kingston, though, is so much easier to reach (unless you live in Surrey!) and is a much more civilised place than any of the other possible locations. So I guess that this oddity will be with us for a few more years.

With that in mind, would it be London then?

Regarding relocation - there will be plenty of space for them at GOSE soon.

 

[tinx]

I've always though Kingston was surrey, Didn't realise anyone thought otherwise.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is a London Borough. The people of Kingston upon Thames vote for the Mayor of London.

They haven't been represented by Surrey County Council since 1965.

 

[Albion Rob]

The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is a London Borough. The people of Kingston upon Thames vote for the Mayor of London.

They haven't been represented by Surrey County Council since 1965.

Cool, cheers for that.

 

[enigma]

Anyone from Kingston claiming its London is really begging it.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Loads of London Boroughs have bits that used to be part of counties before 1965:-

Barking and Dagenham - Essex
Barnet - Hertfordshire & Middlesex
Bexley - Kent
Brent - Middlesex
Bromley - Kent
Croydon - Surrey
Ealing - Middlesex
Enfield - Middlesex
Haringey - Middlesex
Harrow - Middlesex
Havering - Essex
Hillingdon - Middlesex
Hounslow - Middlesex
Kingston upon Thames - Surrey
Merton - Surrey
Newham - Essex
Redbridge - Essex
Richmond upon Thames - Surrey & Middlesex
Sutton - Surrey
Waltham Forest - Essex

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

There's a Kingston in Ontario.

Lovely in the summer, but bloody freezing in the winter.

 

[Gully]

There is also Kingston upon Hull, not particularly nice at any time of the year, unless you are John Prescott reading this, in which case I like to refer to it at the Paris of the north.

 

[bhaexpress]

Surrey County Coucil are starting to move their centre of operations to Guildford. I had an interview up there last year.

In true local government tradition it's a mess.

 

[Juan Albion]

There's a Kingston in Ontario.

Lovely in the summer, but bloody freezing in the winter.

I'll be back there on Monday. I'll let you know.

What a strangely mild winter this has been though. Warmest by far since I came to this country.

 

[Springal]

i like Kingston Upon Thames does seem to have alot of london wannabes

 

[LowKarate]

I have a KT1 post code and always write Surrey in the address, but I always consider it to be part of London as I pay London Council taxes, vote in the London Mayoral and council elections and the real clincher for me is that it's part of Zone 6 for London public transport.

Can't say I care whether I'm a Londoner wannabe or not. It just feels like London to me.