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.
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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...
Soldier who fought in the Wars of the Roses. Â Born Lancashire. Â Originally a Yorkist, he switched sides and in 1485 fought at Bosworth Field for Tudor Henry VII, for which he was appointed Lord Cha...
Co-churchwarden of St Marks, Dalston in 1898. Probably the same W. Moreton Phillips who was a prosecuting solicitor on behalf of the NSPCC, 1897 - 1906 (from the British Newspaper Archive).
Gladstone was born in Downing Street, the youngest son of William, who was Chancellor at the time. Home Secretary for 5 years and then Governor-General of South Africa for another 5. Died at his ho...
The plaque capitalises this as if it was a formal group but we can find no reference to it on the interweb.
Chairman of Weekly Board at the Royal Free Hospital in 1895.
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