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...
Justice of the Peace and Chairman of the Improvements Committee for the Rotherhithe Tunnel in 1908.
Born in New Amsterdam, British Guyana as Shridath Surendranath Ramphal and known as 'Sonny'. He served as Assistant Attorney General of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962, Foreign Ministe...
Alfred Samuel Henderson, CC, was Chairman of the City of London City Lands Committee in 1952.
On the committee of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
The first local authority estate under tenants' control in Britain. Became a limited company on 30 September 1982. Waymarking gives the interesting history of this organisation.
WW2 US military base in Bushy Park named after the first American aviator killed in Europe in WW2. Four blocks of temporary buildings were constructed in 60 acres in the north-east section of Bush...
2012: we can find no information about this group, so possibly it is no longer active.
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