[3] The Urban District Council was originally based in rooms above a shop in Cranbrook Road, meeting in a rented schoolroom in Ilford Hall from 1898.

[2] The borough ran its own tram services until they became the responsibility of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.

[5] A move was mooted in 1929 to combine Ilford with Barking and Dagenham (the three districts to contain parts of the Becontree estate),[6] but it was not acted upon.

The Central Line service of the London Underground began in 1947[8] and the population peaked in 1951.

The borough was considered to form part of the Greater London Conurbation, as defined by the Registrar General.