'LCC Restaurants and the decline of municipal enterprise' in A Saint (ed), Politics and the People of London. The London County Council, 1889-1965
Details:
- Author(s) Leopold, Ellen
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1989
- Pages pp199-213
- Publisher Hambledon Press
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Uses the case of British Restaurants in London, administered for at least some part of their existence by LCC Restaurants & Catering Dept, to illustrate the decline of municipal socialism, latterly municipal ownership, in face of central government obstructions and private enterprise models. Deals in particular with the creation of the restaurants during the wartime Blitz; continuation after the war and passing of the 1947 Civic Restaurants Act; obstructions of central government; final closure in 1954