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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
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...
Journalist and socialist. Born at 22 Wood Street, Woolwich. He married the author Edith Nesbit in 1880. Although she was pregnant, he divided his time between her and his widowed mother and her pai...
District Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1899-1931. Donat in the Order of St John. Donat was a title awarded in recognition of contributions to the fund...
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Born in the Netherlands. A distinguished anti-royalist scholar, for Charles I's trial he was assistant to the Solicitor General but did not sign the death warrant. Murdered in the Hague in 1649 by ...
Member of the Building Committee to build the 1909 Bethnal Green Town Hall. Describing the Bethnal Green councillors at this time, British History gives: "Some later called themselves Liberals, am...
American statesman. 1783 signatory for the Treaty of Paris.
The only surviving tollgate in London. The current charge (2018) is £1.20. This drawing shows the tollgate in possibly the late 18th or early 19th century.
Born in Liverpool. Liberal Prime Minister four times. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Queen Victoria moaned that "He speaks to me as if I were a public meeting". Caroline's Misce...
Person, Jack the Ripper suspects, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
Painter specialising in sporting and hunting scenes. Born Macclesfield Street into a family of painters. His style was old-fashioned even at the time and changed little in his lifetime.
Sadly, our image does not show the Dulwich stocks, but some in Kent.
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