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...
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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
Sir Howell J. Williams
Building contractor. Vice-president of the Royal Northern Hospital. Represented Islington in the LCC for nearly thirty years. In about 1930 he purchased a site on Gray’s Inn Road as a gift for th...
1 memorial
Ken Livingstone
Mayor of London from May 2000 - May 2008. Born Lambeth.
3 memorials
Charles Christmas Piper
A Commissioner for the 1892 Westminster Public Baths and Wash-houses. 1889 co- churchwarden of St John the Evangelist, Westminster. Charles Christmas Piper was born in New Alresford, Hampshire, t...
2 memorials
Dr Alfred Salter
Doctor and politician. Born at 23 South Street, Greenwich. Following his Quaker principles, he gave up a potentially brilliant medical career in order to tend the sick and needy in Bermondsey. He a...
7 memorials
Horst Dohm
Politician. District mayor of Berlin-Wilmersdorf from 1981 to 1996.
1 memorial