Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a good summary of the Metropolitan Boroughs that made up the GLC.
Inherited the blue plaque scheme from the LCC and when abolished passed it on to English Heritage.
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Greater London Council
The County Hall. the home of London government from 1922 to 1986. LCC 1889 -...
{The plaque is laid flat on the ground.} This commemorative plaque was set i...
{Next to a photograph of John Hearn} Ernie's Beach This stretch of the river ...
The sculpture is titled "Great Oaks from Little Acorns". From PMSA:"... hold...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Greater London Council
Greater London Council Admiral Robert Fitzroy, 1805-1865, hydrographer and me...
Housman lived here 1885-1905 when he moved, with his landlady to 1 Yarborough...
Greater London Council Alfred Lord Milner, 1854 - 1925, statesman, lived here.
Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823 - 1913, naturalist, lived here. Greater London Co...
Democrat & chartist. Born County Longford, Ireland. Bronterre was initially a pseudonym but he later adopted it as his middle name. A child prodigy, he fell short of his early promise and died ...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Ireland
John Fettes was born on 24 February 1871 at 5 Warner Street, Southwark, Surrey (now Greater London), the second of the seven children of James Thomson Fettes (1843-1916) and Elizabeth Morrison Fett...
The Victorian Town Hall was bombed in WW2 and demolished in 1963. After the bombing the neighbouring municipal offices (1928, H. Tansley) were used for all council needs. Then in 1964 Bermondsey be...
Sheriff of the City of London, 1894. Born Cornhill. Lord Mayor 1901-2. MP for the City of London from 1900 to 1906. Married Beatrice Eliza Bower Holdsworth in 1873. Our correspondent, Alicia Col...
Andrew Gillett, Master of the Founders Company in 2013. Wrote the history of the Founders Company.
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