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...
MP. Either William or his elder brother, Charles, together with their father (the 4th Marquess) donated the original site for what became City University. Brother of Lady Graham. Succeeded to the t...
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest. George Joseph Cressall was born on 29 August 1880, the eldest of the sixteen children of Thomas Walter Cressall (1856-1927) and Clara T...
Women's suffrage movement. It seems that many of these groups merged to form the Liberal Women's Foundation in 1887.
Naval officer. Governor of of Greenwich Hospital, 1 May 1841 until his death.
Medical Board in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1889-1907. Officer in the Order of St John. We think this man is probably the Frederick Gordon Brown who was the City Police Sur...
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Comedian and actor. Born Alfred Hawthorne Hill in Southampton. In his teens he worked as a milkman, an experience which he later put to good use in his hit song 'Ernie - The Fastest Milkman in the ...
The foundation plaque is to the left of the entrance, the war memorial plaque, to the right. The large entrance porch from its design is ...
At 1 Rosslyn Gardens, Hampstead. We don't know what went on in "Rosslyn Heights", nor when it ceased, assuming it has.
Governing body of the London Borough of Ealing, Formed in 1965 by the merging of the Municipal Boroughs of Acton, Ealing and Southall.
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