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:
Greater London Council
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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
James Clements
JP, elected to Brentford Council in 1895 and was the Chairman of the Council a number of times.
1 memorial
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Founded by the merger of the National Central Society for Women's Suffrage and the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage. These were the suffragists, who used legal campaig...
1 memorial
Thomas Joseph Whiffen
Studied at the Royal School of Mines. Joined his father's chemical supply business, based in Battersea in 1873. Churchwarden of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe in 1901. It's possible that the church ward...
1 memorial
Walter Daniel Cronin
Master of the Innholders 1920 - 21.
1 memorial
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin
Founder of the USSR. Born and died in Russia. Political theorist and Communist revolutionary. Reviewing a book on Lenin in the Observer, 23 October 2016, Nigel Jones wrote: "... once in power Lenin...
6 memorials
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Crocketts Leather Cloth Company Ltd
Odd that the monument does not use the name "Crocketts" but all the sources give that name for the Leather Cloth factory on this site. More information at London's Ghost Acres. The catalogue of th...
1 memorial
Burgess, Clark and Whittard
E14, Canada Square
The building in the background is 8 Canada Square, HSBC's London head office, and the building on which the 3 construction workers lost t...
4 subjects commemorated
First V2 attack - Chiswick
The first V2, which landed on the quiet suburb of Chiswick, killed three people and injured 22.
1 memorial
Kitchener statue
SW1, Horse Guards Parade
{On the front of the plinth:} Kitchener, 1850 - 1916 {On the front of the lower shallow plinth:} Erected by Parliament {Inscribed on t...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Cornhill pump
EC3, Cornhill
We understand "the neighbouring fire officers" to mean the four fire assurance companies represented by their insignia on the four sides ...
2 subjects commemorated,
4 creators