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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Greater London Council
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County Hall - London government
The County Hall. the home of London government from 1922 to 1986. LCC 1889 -...
Dome of Discovery
{The plaque is laid flat on the ground.} This commemorative plaque was set i...
Gatehouse Square, Southwark
The sculpture is titled "Great Oaks from Little Acorns". From PMSA:"... hold...
Grayling Square
Grayling Square This block was built in 1976 by the Greater London Council. T...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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Admiral Robert Fitzroy - SW7
Greater London Council Admiral Robert Fitzroy, 1805-1865, hydrographer and me...
A. E. Housman - N6
Housman lived here 1885-1905 when he moved, with his landlady to 1 Yarborough...
Alfred Lord Milner
Greater London Council Alfred Lord Milner, 1854 - 1925, statesman, lived here.
Alfred Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823 - 1913, naturalist, lived here. Greater London Co...
Other Subjects
Lord Holland, Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
Whig politician. Grandson of the first Baron, and nephew of Charles James Fox. Born Wiltshire and orphaned by the age of 5. Owned 401 slaves. Express Informer provides "‘By the unexpected death of...
1 memorial
Mr Deputy Hora
One of the managers of the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital. Very strange form of his name but we found another reference at City Affairs from London, 18 December 1897: "In Portsoken, there is a ...
1 memorial
Thomas Eccleston Gibb
St Pancras Vestry Clerk in the late 1800s. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man, and found our picture for us: Thomas Eccleston Gibb was born on 21 October 1838 in Liverp...
3 memorials
Alfred H. Warren, OBE
Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Sir Alfred Hamer Warren, O.B.E. was born on 6 February 1856 in Poplar, London and educated at the local Wesleyan School. In 1896 he ma...
1 memorial
John Oakes
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
1 memorial