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.
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...
Alexander Herzen, 1812 - 1870, Russian political thinker, lived here, 1860 - ...
Greater London Council Alfred Lord Milner, 1854 - 1925, statesman, lived here.
British History Online gives: "Robert Dingley (d. 1742), a City goldsmith, acquired a small house in North End in 1727 and a grant of waste in 1738. He left the estate to his younger son Charles, w...
Under the feudal system the King owned all land and others could only hold it as the King's tenants. Transfers between tenants were known as 'alienations' and this required a licence from the King....
Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajanus Augustus. Â Born Spain. Â Roman Emperor AD 98 - 117. Â His ashes are buried under Trajan's Column in Rome. Â Succeeded by Hadrian who built the wall that Trajan had prop...
A Commissioner for the 1892Â Westminster Public Baths and Wash-houses. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: James Gibson was born about 1833 in Crowland, Lincolnshire. He ...
Muslim reformer and scholar. Born Delhi, Died Aligarh.
Person, Politics & Administration, Religion, India, Pakistan
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