ABSTRACT
Grotton’s history has from time immemorial, or thereabouts, been bound up with textiles, with an emphasis on socks, which led to the establishment of Grotton’s famous sock exchange, and corsetry. Grotton riotously celebrated becoming a municipal borough in the nineteenth century, then a county borough, then a city, before being awarded fully fledged metropolitan district status. The most senior planner at the City is Nicola Tilbrook, the Assistant Chief Executive, an energetic young manager, usually to be seen bearing a bottle of water between meetings or taking a hurried lunch of grass and chopped cabbage from a tupperware box. Peter Rabbit, the amiable Borough Planning and Estates Officer, who joined the Authority in the 1960s, retired in 1991 after a long and happy career. The diversity and heterogeneity of the County of Grotton will have been obvious from the accounts of the Districts of which it is comprised.
