Events

Victoria, Lady Borwick, Deputy Mayor of London, spoke to a forum of female representatives from legal and accountancy firms at C. Hoare & Co. over lunch on Wednesday, 30th October. The talk took us on a tour of the extremely wide remit of the London Assembly.

Victoria started with an interesting intellectual challenge for the audience – who were each of the six tunnel boring machines used in Crossrail named after?*

After her talk, Victoria took questions on a wide range of subjects from housing – such as how accommodation can be provided in London at affordable levels and why there appear to be increasing numbers of homeless people on the streets of London, to transport with discussion on both the rail network and airport capacity. A topical subject following transport difficulties experienced after Monday’s storm.

Everyone present found the talk both fascinating and extremely informative.

*Ada, after Ada Lovelace, one of the earliest computer scientists; Phyllis, after Phyllis Pearsall who created the London A-Z; Mary, the wife of Isambard Kingdom Brunel; Sophia, wife of Marc Isambard Brunel; Victoria and Elizabeth after the two Queens, Victoria, monarch in the first age of great railway engineering projects and Elizabeth II our current monarch.