I’ve posted a number of 1980s anti-rate capping and anti-cuts badges from London boroughs, but here is an example from Leicester. The Council ultimately backed down from setting what would have been an illegal budget:

Today’s municipal treasure: a cap badge from the London Borough of Havering. #municipal #Havering

It’s Saturday Morning Municipal Street Lighting Nerd Club. The City of London has tended to affix much of its street lighting to buildings, and here are two examples of the kit it has used. I’m not sure the rather odd and ornate extension on the newer one on the right ever saw any action…

Municipal guide cover of the day: this is an early Haringey guide produced by Burrows in around 1970. The spectacular cover appears to be pure abstraction unless you can see something I can’t! Artist uncredited.

I’ve posted some of these before, but the collection grows incrementally every now & then, so here they all are: 1980s badges protesting against the Thatcher government’s rate capping policies and the consequent threat to local services. Examples from Haringey, Lambeth, Hackney, Camden and Lewisham.

Municipal guide of the day (non-London edition): a rather eccentric typeface for Wigan.

Today’s municipal treasure: a non-London example here…. A badge celebrating 50 years of Morecambe & Heysham Borough in 1952. The authority disappeared in 1974 with the local government reorganisation. #municipal #Morecambe #Heysham

Today’s municipal treasure: a badge featuring the coat of arms of the former Borough of Dagenham. This appears to have been an award for swimming prowess! #Dagenham #Municipal

A GLC Thamesmead Residents’ Information Guide from the late 1960s, produced as the first stages were completed and the initial residents moved in. “When it is finished there will be a wide range of facilities for you and your family all within easy reach”: a promise that took some time to deliver. #GLC #Municipal #Thamemead