Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a larger area.
In 1901 took over the blue plaque scheme from the Royal Society of Arts. Now run by English Heritage.
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London County Council
Andrew Behan directed us to Coletti where we discovered that the plaque was "...
This park was acquired and laid out by the Vestry of Kensington with financia...
Beechwood House This building was built in 1948 by the London County Council ...
Cobden House This block was built in 1958 by the London County Council and wa...
These grounds, the site of the Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 by Cap...
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London County Council
Robert Adam, Thomas Hood, John Galsworthy, Sir James Barrie and other eminent...
Albert Chevalier, 1861 - 1923, music hall comedian, was born here. London Cou...
Alice Meynell, 1847 - 1922, poet and essayist, lived here. London County Council
London County Council Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923, prime minister lived here.
Anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and International elder statesman. Born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei, South Africa. Gaoled 5th August 1962, sentenced to life imprisonment 12...
Person, Peace, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous, South Africa
USA President 1829 - 1837. Officially recognised Texas as an independent republic on 3 March 1837 by appointing an ambassador.
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
John Otho Marsh Jr. was born on 7 August 1926 in Winchester, Virginia, USA. He served in the House of Representatives for Virginia 1963-71 and was the Secretary of the Army of the United States of ...
Local community organiser and campaigner. Lived on the Peckwater Estate 1966 - 2003. A play centre in 1972, some play groups, countless ‘jollies’ to the seaside for tenants - all owe their existen...
From the website: "QPARA was established by local residents in 1973 as an entirely voluntary organisation keen to preserve the integrity of the conservation area … and that’s what we still do, but ...
Founded by John Fleming and A. F. "Peggy" Bettinson. First president Hugh Cecil Lowther, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale. It became the home of modern glove boxing, with bouts taking place in silence, after...
Married to Rev. Joseph Toulson. From My Primitive Methodists: "Joseph married Mary Ann Sanderson (1829-1912) in the summer of 1850. Census returns identify two children. Mary Hannah (1851-1936) – ...
Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst Walsh was a British-Australian suffragette, political organiser, campaigner for peace and co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First...
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