The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.

They became part of an integrated transport system in 1933 when the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) or London Transport was created.

* Frank Pick, Managing Director of the Underground Group from 1928 and Chief Executive of the London Passenger Transport Board from its creation in 1933 until 1940.

* Lord Ashfield, chairman of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London ( UERL ) from 1910 to 1933 and chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) from 1933 to 1947.

The period began with the creation of the London Passenger Transport Board, which covered the County of London and adjacent counties within a 30-mile ( 48-km ) radius.

London Passenger Transport Area ( County of London in grey )

The London Passenger Transport Board ( LPTB ) was the transport authority from 1 July 1933 to 31 December 1947.

The area of responsibility of the LPTB was far greater than the current Greater London boundaries and was known as the London Passenger Transport Area.

The ' roundel symbol ' designed in 1918 was adopted by London Passenger Transport Board and the London Transport brand and architectural style was perfected during this period.

* July 1 – The London Passenger Transport Board is founded.

Passenger traffic at this airport has experienced a large increase in recent years, regular flights fly from there to, for example, London, Rome, Milan and other cities, the airport also serves as one of two bases for police helicopters in the Czech Republic.

Upon the formation of the London Passenger Transport Board by amalgamation of the CLR with other transport companies in the London area on 1 July 1933, the railway became known as the Central London Line.

The service is operated by London Tramlink, an arm of Transport for London ( TfL ).

In 1990 Croydon Council with the then London Regional Transport ( LRT ) put the project to Parliament and the Croydon Tramlink Act 1994 resulted, which gave LRT the power to build and run Tramlink.

The background to this purchase relates to the requirement that TfL ( who took over from London Regional Transport in 2000 ) compensates TCL for the consequences of any changes to the fares and ticketing policy introduced since 1996.

* Chartered Institute of Transport London

To give another example, the validity of a pass on London Regional Transport services is until the end of the " transport day " -- that is to say, until 4: 30 am on the day after the " expiry " date stamped on the pass.

The DLR is operated under a concession awarded by Transport for London to Serco Limited, part of the Serco Group.

The system is owned by Docklands Light Rail Limited, part of the London Rail division of Transport for London.

Transport links have improved significantly, with the Isle of Dogs gaining a tube connection via the Jubilee Line Extension ( opened 1999 ) and the DLR being extended to Beckton, Lewisham, London City Airport, North Woolwich and Stratford.

Since 2003 LUL has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport for London ( TfL ), the statutory corporation responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London, which is run by a board and a commissioner appointed by the Mayor of London.

* London Underground ( Transport for London ) Home page

* J. Tate London, The " 1991 Amendments " to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Protection for Native Lands ?, 8 Stan.

The Charlottetown Conference ended with an agreement to meet the following month in Quebec City, where more formal discussions ensued, culminating with meetings in London and the signing of the British North America Act.

The patriation of the Canadian constitution was achieved in 1982 when the British and Canadian parliaments passed parallel acts: the Canada Act, 1982 ( 1982, c. 11 ), in London, and the Constitution Act, 1982, in Ottawa.

Dublin suffered a period of political and economic decline during the 19th century following the Act of Union of 1800, under which the seat of government was transferred to the Westminster Parliament in London.

Enya was awarded the World's Best-Selling Irish Act award at the World Music Awards in London on 19 November 2006.

* Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act, London: Allen Lane, 1975 ; with a new postscript, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977 ; London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2012.

The London Traffic Act 1924 was a result of the Commission.

Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.

The Greater London Council was abolished in 1986 by the Local Government Act 1985.

The Greater London Authority, London Assembly and the directly elected Mayor of London were created in 2000 by the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

Moving to London in 1945, following the repeal of the Witchcraft Act of 1736 he became intent on propagating this religion, attracting media attention and writing about it in High Magic's Aid ( 1949 ), Witchcraft Today ( 1954 ) and The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ).

They were amended when, in 1965 under the London Government Act 1963, East Barnet Urban District and Barnet Urban District were abolished and their area was transferred to Greater London to form part of the present-day London Borough of Barnet.

Neither the Conditions of Carriage nor Schedule 17 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999, which states how and when penalty fares can be issued, allow the issue of a penalty fare to a traveller who had already paid the correct fare for their journey.

* Sir Charles Walker, Thirty-Six Years at the Admiralty ( London, 1933 )

In 1933, the Soviet Government sold the Codex Sinaiticus for 100, 000 pounds to the British Museum in London, England.

In 1933, Thomas visited London for probably the first time.

For a while he " went native " in his own country, dressing like a tramp and making no concessions to middle-class mores and expectations ; he recorded his experiences of the low life for use in The Spike, his first published essay in English, and in the second half of his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ).

" Down and Out in Paris and London was published on 9 January 1933, as Orwell continued to work on Burmese Days.

In the summer of 1933 Blair left Hawthorns to become a teacher at Frays College, in Uxbridge, West London.

* 1933 – Down and Out in Paris and London

On 4 August 1933, the Courier published as a full news item the assertion of a London man, George Spicer, that a few weeks earlier while motoring around the Loch, he and his wife had seen " the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life ", trundling across the road toward the Loch carrying " an animal " in its mouth.

The history of public transport authorities in London details the various organisations that have been responsible for the public transport network in and around London, England from 1933 until 2000 and have used the London Transport brand.

Prior to 1933, the ownership and management of the transport system in London was distributed among a large number of independent and separate organisations.

It is the first London transport authority since 1933 not to be commonly called London Transport.