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...
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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...
Naval officer. While attempting to control the 1797 Spithead mutiny, Colpoys ordered the shooting of his own crew thus causing the death of several men (we can't find an exact number). Not surpri...
One of Viscount Rothermere's three sons, of which the elder two died in WW1.
Arthur Valerian Wellesley was born on 2 July 1915 in Rome, Italy. His Wikipedia page gives a comprehensive guide to his life. He died, aged 99 years, on 31 December 2014 at Stratfield Saye House,...
MP and Prime Minister in the 1830s and 40s. Reorganised the London police force and hence gave rise to the expressions "Peelers" and "Bobbies" for the police. He based the new structure on that of ...
Co-church warden of St Botolph Without Aldersgate in 1868.
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