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...
Robert William Hanbury. Conservative politician. President of the Board of Agriculture 1900-3. Married twice but produced no children. See our Hanbury fountain page for information on his Wimbledon...
Nirmal Chandra Roy first stood as a Labour party candidate in the Adelaide Ward of the London Borough of Camden in the 1978 council elections and came 6th. Four years later in 1982 he stood in the ...
On the Executive Committee for the 1851 Great Exhibition Memorial.
Conservative MP, As Environment Secretary 1993-7, during which he, infamously, fed a beefburger to his daughter during the 'mad cow' epidemic. Born Cheshire. Created Baron Deben in 2010.
Naval officer. Governor of Greenwich Hospital 1720 to his death, there.
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