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 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. See there for more information about the scheme.
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Greater London Council
The plaque definitively names Victoria Docks {sic} as the source of the soil ...
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 ...
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...
Alexander Herzen, 1812 - 1870, Russian political thinker, lived here, 1860 - ...
Greater London Council Alfred Lord Milner, 1854 - 1925, statesman, lived here.
Landkreis Gottingen (District of Gottingen) in Germany is twinned with Hackney Council.
Treasurer of St Luke's School in 1870 and had a new wing named after him in 1887.
MP. Born Surrey.  Son of the anti-slavery campaigner first baronet, he entered the family brewing business.  He later published his father's memoirs and a history 'Slavery and Freedom in the Britis...
Builder active in 1887. Also built: Boston Manor Road Library (1903) Brentford High Street Project published the death notice in the Middlesex Independent of 25 September 0918: "...the death of Mr...
Socialist writer and activist. Karl Marx's daughter, born 28 Dean Street and nicknamed Tussy. Her father's secretary from an early age, she returned home to nurse her aged parents. Â Created the fir...
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