Municipal Dreams, celebrating those men and women who dreamed of a better world.

Now I like featuring other people’s blogs.

And so today I want to draw your attention to Municipal Dreams which features well researched articles celebrating "the efforts and achievements of our early municipal reformers.

These men and women dreamed of a better world.  But this was a dream built in bricks and mortar; an idealism rooted in the practical power of the local state to transform lives and raise the condition of the people.

I believe that the legacy of our early municipal reformers is unjustly neglected and often unfairly maligned.  

This is a modest attempt to record their story and set that record straight.”*

I first came across the blog while researching the Nine Fields which was an open piece of land to the west and north of Well Hall in Eltham.

And as you do I wandered the net and found references to the estates which were built by Woolwich Borough Council on the land in the 1920s.

Today’s article,  The Metropolitan Water Board: taking on ‘the Water Lords’** is well worth a visit

Picture; courtesy of Municipal Dreams

* Municipal Dreams, http://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/about/

** http://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/the-metropolitan-water-board-taking-on-the-water-lords/