| 1. | It was immediately to the north of the county borough of Birmingham.
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| 2. | In the 1930s the County Borough of West Ham commenced slum clearances.
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| 3. | The administrative centre is Pontypool in the centre of the county borough.
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| 4. | The town became a county borough under the Local Government Act 1888.
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| 5. | In 1952 there was a failed attempt to gain county borough status.
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| 6. | The former County Borough of Salford was granted city status in 1926.
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| 7. | Under the Local Government Act 1888 Bury was constituted a county borough.
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| 8. | It instead was added to the county borough of Birmingham that year.
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| 9. | Parts of its western slopes fall within Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough.
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| 10. | Morris remained Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Swansea County Borough Council.
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