Group    From 1965  To 1986

Greater London Council

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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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Greater London Council

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County Hall - frieze

The dates add up because the LCC only moved here in 1922.

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County Hall - London government

The County Hall. the home of London government from 1922 to 1986. LCC 1889 -...

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Dome of Discovery

{The plaque is laid flat on the ground.} This commemorative plaque was set i...

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Ernie's Beach

{Next to a photograph of John Hearn} Ernie's Beach This stretch of the river ...

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Gatehouse Square, Southwark

The sculpture is titled "Great Oaks from Little Acorns".  From PMSA:"... hold...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Greater London Council

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A. A. Milne - SW3

A .A. Milne, 1882 - 1956, author, lived here. Greater London Council

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Admiral Robert Fitzroy - SW7

Greater London Council Admiral Robert Fitzroy, 1805-1865, hydrographer and me...

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A. E. Housman - N6

Housman lived here 1885-1905 when he moved, with his landlady to 1 Yarborough...

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Alfred Lord Milner

Greater London Council Alfred Lord Milner, 1854 - 1925, statesman, lived here.

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Alfred Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823 - 1913, naturalist, lived here. Greater London Co...

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John Stopher

John Stopher

Deputy Chairman of the Bridge House Estates Committee in 1935.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Founding of the state of Victoria in Australia

Founding of the state of Victoria in Australia

A small, heavily populated state on the south-east coast of Australia.  It was officially separated from New South Wales, given a constitution and named Victoria in 1850.  The enabling legislation ...

Event, Politics & Administration, Australia

1 memorial
Daniel Robert Dale, FRIBA

Daniel Robert Dale, FRIBA

Commoner on the Bridge House Estates Committee, 1894.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
R. J. Buckingham

R. J. Buckingham

Mayor of Hammersmith 1946 - 49. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Reginald James Buckingham was born on 8 April 1887 in Exeter, Devon. He was the second child and only son of Fre...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Sir Philip Sassoon

Sir Philip Sassoon

Sir Philip Sassoon attained prominence in the art world, high society and politics in the first decades of the 20th century. He was ADC to Douglas Haig during the First World War and later Parliame...

Person, Politics & Administration, France

1 memorial

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Stationers' War Memorial

Stationers' War Memorial

EC4, Stationers’ Hall Court

A beautiful, hand-crafted plaque - not just the frame, the gold lettering has some lovely touches - see the "LO" of "glory" and the way t...

War dead | WW1
9 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Miriam Hyman

Miriam Hyman

Miriam Jill Hyman was born on 30 November 1972 in the University College Hospital, London, the younger dughter of John Hyman and Mavis Hyman née Morris. Her elder sister Esther Hyman was born in 19...

Person, Tragedy

3 memorials
Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Humourist and writer. Born in Shepherd's Bush, he invented the verse form which took his middle name (his mother's maiden name), and is a four-line nonsense poem about a famous person; an example b...

Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Poetry

2 memorials
Eleanor Camp

Eleanor Camp

Killed, aged 44, in the Downhills shelter WW2 tragedy, 19 September 1940.

Person

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Oliver Cromwell Cheater

Oliver Cromwell Cheater

Auxiliary fireman killed in an air raid on Poplar

Person, Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial