Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch
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The Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch was a metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1900 and 1965, when it was merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington and the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney to form the London Borough of Hackney.
The borough was made up of three main districts: Shoreditch, Hoxton and Haggerston.
The borough consisted of the area of the ancient parish of Shoreditch (St Leonard's). The parish vestry had taken on local administration from the 17th century onwards.
Town Hall
The administrative headquarters of the borough were in Old Street. The original vestry hall of 1866 became the town hall, which was extended and enlarged in 1902 and 1938. The building is embellished with symbolic statuary alluding to the borough motto: 'More Light, More Power'. This motto was a reference to the provision of a state-of-the-art Electricity Generating Station, in Hoxton Market, for the borough residents, by the council. The Generating Station building still survives but has now been converted into 'The Circus Space'.
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