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...
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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...
Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1937.
Located at 25 Kensington Palace Gardens.
Trade unionist and politician. Labour politician for Limehouse in the LCC. Parks Chairman in 1934. Elected in Limehouse 1937. Chairman of the Highways Committee of the LCC in 1937. LCC Chairman in ...
USA President 1845 –1849. Signed the documents formally integrating Texas into the United States on 29 December 1845.
Anarchist. Born France. Active in the Paris Commune. Deported to New Caledonia in the Pacific. Returned to Paris when the Communards were granted amnesty. She continued her disruptive activities an...
Author and publisher. Born Leonard Sidney Woolf in Kensington. After working in the Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) Civil Service, he returned to Britain where he met and married Virginia Stephen. Together ...
A plaque inside the library provides the following: “John Harvard was born in Southwark in 1607 and was baptized in St Saviour’s Church, the present Southwark Cathedral. He was the son of Robert H...
Sculptor and illustrator. Born Bloomsbury. Executed a large number of public statues and funerary works, and worked closely with George Gilbert Scott on the Albert Memorial. Died at home 52 Circus ...
The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom. 2020: It is operated by Camelot Group. Some of its funds are distributed by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Probably the wife of Frederick Frye. Andrew Behan researched this woman, first making a fair stab at which Mrs Frye she is: Firstly, we can discount Mrs Frye being the mother of Frederick Charlwo...
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