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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
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...
Alexander Patrick Greysteil Hore-Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, PC, FRSL, was both a Member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was a Co...
Governor of the New River Company, in 1786, a Master in Chancery and a director of the East India Company. Died in 1804 ‘immensely rich’. From History of Parliament.
Born St James's. Succeeded his father as Marquess, aged six. Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and of the British Museum.
The palace of Westminster has been the home of Parliament since a meeting there in 1295. It split into two "houses" in 1341 but, having been built as a royal residence, the palace had no suitable m...
Corps Secretary in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1889-1892.
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
An exclusive club which only knights can join. Founded in 1908 to enable a joint opposition to the Walker Trustees who were enforcing their entitlement to collect monies from newly created Knights...
A tunnel beneath the Thames with entrances at Tower Hill and at Vine Lane on the south side. The second tunnel under the Thames (the first being Brunel's) and the first tunnel anywhere built using ...
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