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Group    From 21/3/1889  To 1965

London County Council

London County Council

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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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
London County Council

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Andrew Young

Andrew Behan directed us to Coletti where we discovered that the plaque was "...

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Avondale Park

This park was acquired and laid out by the Vestry of Kensington with financia...

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Beechwood - William Sebright

Beechwood House This building was built in 1948 by the London County Council ...

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Cobden House

Cobden House This block was built in 1958 by the London County Council and wa...

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Coram's Fields

These grounds, the site of the Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 by Cap...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
London County Council

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Adam, Hood, Galsworthy, Barrie, etc.

Robert Adam, Thomas Hood, John Galsworthy, Sir James Barrie and other eminent...

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Albert Chevalier

Albert Chevalier, 1861 - 1923, music hall comedian, was born here. London Cou...

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Alfred Stevens

Alfred Stevens (1817 - 1875) artist, lived here. LCC

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Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell, 1847 - 1922, poet and essayist, lived here. London County Council

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Andrew Bonar Law

London County Council Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923, prime minister lived here.

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Other Subjects

Councillor A. R. Bean

Councillor A. R. Bean

Councillor and member of Housing Committee, Parmiter Street, 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1937.

Person, Politics & Administration

2 memorials
William Hicks Hall

William Hicks Hall

Co-churchwarden of Christ Church Spitalfields, 1843 - 45, at least.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Samuel Walters

Samuel Walters

Co-Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers in 1724.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Giles Vernon Hart

Giles Vernon Hart

Telecommunications engineer and trades union activist. Born in Khartoum, Sudan. While working as an executive officer at Trinity House lighthouse authority, he set up a union branch. In the 1980s, ...

Person, Community / Clubs, Politics & Administration, Tragedy, Poland, Sudan

4 memorials
J. E. Stanley Lewis

J. E. Stanley Lewis

Born in Ottawa.  Ottawa's longest serving mayor, 1936 to 1948.  The photo shows him in 1946 the year of the planting of the tree that he gifted but we don't think he was at the event.

Person, Benefactor, Politics & Administration, Canada

1 memorial