1938 City of London by-election 1938 City of London by-election The City of London by-election, 1938 was a by-election held on 6 April 1938 for the British House of Commons constituency of City of London, which covered the "Square Mile" which was the United Kingdom's traditional financial district. The by-election was caused by the death of one of the City's two Conservative Party Members of Parliament (MPs) Thomas Vansittart Bowater, who had held the seat since a by-election in 1924, having contested the seat in an earlier by-election in 1922. The Conservative candidate, Sir George Broadbridge, who had been Lord Mayor of London in 1936,
East London Tech City East London Tech City East London Tech City (also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout) is the term for a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in Shoreditch/St Luke's and also in Hackney Wick in London, England. Its nucleus broadly occupies an area between St Luke's and Hackney Road. A cluster of web businesses initially developed around the Old Street Roundabout in 2008. The area had historically been relatively run down compared to the City. The 2008–09 recession further suppressed rents through the closure of numerous firms, making it affordable to technology start-ups, while redundancies from financial services companies,