Crown & government
Ministry of Works and Communications
Also called Civic Works · Under-Secretaryship of Civic Works
The Crown office for major roads, bridges, public works, guarded masts and strategic construction, and for the awkward interface between metropolitan ambition and local jurisdiction.
The Crown office attached to bridges, quay improvements, lamp budgets and drainage appropriations whenever Westminster chooses to notice the lower city.
Named with it
Ties
- part of the Ministry
At the table
Known in London less by speeches than by surveys, delays, compulsory access to work sites and trails of clerks. Westminster clerks mutter George Marchmont's name whenever bridges, quays, lamps and drainage become metropolitan business.