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...
District Staff Officer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1906-1949. Commander in the Order of St John.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
Anarchist and writer. Born Spain. As Minister of Health during the social revolution she was the first woman to be a minister of a Western European country. During Franco's rule, she lived in Franc...
Naval officer. Born Hampshire. Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1821 until his death there. The Greenwich monument has his name spelt 'Keates'; all other sources have 'Keats'.
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
Birth date approximate. Essex landowner. One of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Charta.
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