Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a larger area.
In 1901 took over the blue plaque scheme from the Royal Society of Arts. Now run by English Heritage.
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London County Council
Andrew Behan directed us to Coletti where we discovered that the plaque was "...
This park was acquired and laid out by the Vestry of Kensington with financia...
Beechwood House This building was built in 1948 by the London County Council ...
Cobden House This block was built in 1958 by the London County Council and wa...
These grounds, the site of the Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 by Cap...
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London County Council
Albert Chevalier, 1861 - 1923, music hall comedian, was born here. London Cou...
Alice Meynell, 1847 - 1922, poet and essayist, lived here. London County Council
London County Council Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923, prime minister lived here.
Andrew Lang, 1844 - 1912, man of letters lived here in 1876 - 1912. London Co...
Councillor on the Committee for the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension.
Prospective Socialist candidate for the Epping division in October 1935.
Born Westminster. Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister. Father of William Pitt the Younger. Died Hayes, Kent.
Treasurer of St Luke's School in 1870 and had a new wing named after him in 1887.
Born Bermondsey. Andrew Behan's researches have found that when he was baptised on 7 April 1872 at St Mary Newington Church, Lambeth his date of birth was recorded as 3 September 1860. Lots of inte...
Kenneth Samson Taylor was born on 25 March 1917 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the youngest of the four children of Dr Royall Hegetschweiler Taylor (1873-1956) and May Maud Taylor née Holloway (188...
Born Birkenhead. Vicar of St Philips Lambeth 1898 - 1910. Biblical Studies: The Rev. W. H. Hornby Steer, MA, St John's College, Cambridge, Senior Curate of St Jude's Church, South Kensington, has ...
Character created by Charles Dickens in his novel Oliver Twist, first published 1838.
Also responsible for, among others, the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, the Cenotaph in central Glasgow, figures on Marble Arch.
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