The three centralized complexes in Bow, Hendon and Lambeth employ over 2,000 people who deal
with up to 20,000“999” calls every day.
Famously, you can play it at Hampton Court Palace, but for a more modern experience make for the gleaming Millennium
Court of the Middlesex Real Tennis Club in Hendon, north London.
According to the 1961 census, Ealing, Enfield, Harrow, Hendon, Heston & Isleworth,
Tottenham, Wembley, Willesden and Twickenham had each reached a population greater than 100,000, which would normally have entitled each of them to seek county borough status.