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	exploring social action: housing and the london county council
		The London County Council (LCC) was established in 1889.
		The London County Council (LCC) had condemned the area around Wolseley Street and George Row as unfit for human habitation - and by the end of the 1920s land had been cleared and work begun on the classic five storey blocks that now stand in the area (and form part of the Dickens Estate).
		In 1965 the London County Council and the lower tier of 28 metropolitan boroughs was replaced by the Greater London Council (GLC) and 12 boroughs.
	www.infed.org /socialaction/lcc_housing.htm (400 words)

	Victorian London - Organisations - London County Council
		LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (THE), which was created to take the Place of the Metropolitan Board of Works by the Local Government Act of 1888, has administrative powers of great importance to the well-being of the inhabitants of the Metropolis and duties of a manifold and comprehensive character in its good government.
		The Council are naturally represented on each of,these, but the surprise would be that the 138 gentlemen who constitute the Council, either as Aldermen or Councillors could add to the already important and multifarious branches of work that come under their charge.
		The offices of the Council are in Spring Gardens, Charing Cross, and the Education Offices on the Victoria Embankment.
	www.victorianlondon.org /organisations/lcc.htm (497 words)

	cars - Greater London Council
		The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to its abolition in 1986.
		The Labour Party had controlled the LCC from 1934 and by the 1950s elections were becoming uncompetitive, as the LCC boundaries by then covered only the inner city.
		Greater London covered the counties of London and Middlesex plus parts of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey, and the county boroughs of Croydon, East Ham and West Ham.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/GLC (1011 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Travel Guide: London's East End - Poplar Rate Strike, 1921
		Council Grants from the Coalition Government had a big string attached, that is, ex-service personnel had to be given priority.
		The London County Council and the Metropolitan Asylum Board applied to the Court for the Councillors to be declared in contempt of the mandamus.
		The Council would be labelled in a Department of Health memorandum as 'the would-be wreckers of the poor law system', and could claim some credit for the eventual demise of the Poor Law.
	www.britannia.com /travel/london/cockney/poplarstrike.html (1415 words)

	City of London (United Kingdom)
		This is the flag of the city of London as it appears in Inglefield (1979).
		London continued to expand and in 1965 the Greater London Council was formed which engulfed nearly all of Middlesex (causing the complete abolition of the county), large parts of Surrey, Essex and Kent and a small part of Hertfordshire.
		In 1965, the LCC was replaced by the Greater London Council, covering the enlarged Greater London - an amalgamation of the former County of London with the neighbouring districts in Middlesex, Essex, Surrey and Kent.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/gb-lond.html (1778 words)

	Greater London
		A Lord Lieutenant of Greater London is appointed for its area, less the City of London; an area identical to the Metropolitan Police District; and for the purposes of the Lieutenancies Act 1997 this area is defined as a county.
		London County Council pressed for an alteration in its boundaries soon after the end of the First World War, noting that within the Metropolitan and City Police Districts there were 122 housing authorities.
		Greater London was formally created by the London Government Act 1963, which took force on 1 April 1965, replacing the former administrative counties of Middlesex and London, adding the City of London, which was not under the London County Council, and absorbing parts of Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.
	www.globalguide.org /index.html?id=44425 (1364 words)

	Wikinfo \| London
		London is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and one of the largest cities in Europe.
		The London public transport system is one of the few systems in the world to be a tourist attraction in its own right; its infrastructure, however, is, and historically has been, financially stretched and under-resourced, leading to frequent difficulties and delays in making journeys.
		The city is home to the London Psychogeographical Association and boasts five professional symphony orchestras; the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=London (980 words)

	HyperWar: Problems of Social Policy [Chapter XIV]
		In London, there was the additional complication of two billeting authorities—the County Council and the metropolitan boroughs—while the function of the Ministry's regional office as a coordinating instrument had not been clarified.
		London, Even by the end of September 1940 a 'substantial improvement' in the condition of the London County Council's rest centres was recorded.
		Moreover, until the ordinary people of London took it in their own hands to open the tubes as refuge for the night, and until better shelter provision had been made throughout the region, there was some haphazard evacuation to the towns and villages of the home counties.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-Civil-Social/UK-Civil-Social-14.html (19151 words)

	A short history of London government - London Life, GLA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The LCC was created as the principal administrative body for the County of London; a lower tier of 28 metropolitan boroughs was created in 1899, replacing the earlier parishes and vestries.
		The LCC's administrative area was the County of London: an area smaller area than Greater London is now and corresponding to today's London Boroughs of Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth and Westminster.
		Since Greater London Council was not an education authority, but the London County Council had been, an Inner London Education Authority was constituted to continue this role for the area of the old County of London.
	www.london.gov.uk /london-life/city-government/history.jsp (919 words)

	London County Council (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The [[County of London, shown within a map of England's 1890 counties]] London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London from 1889 until 1965, when it was replaced by the Greater London Council.
		The creation of the LCC was forced by a succession of scandals involving the Metropolitan Board of Works, its predecessor, which had not been directly elected.
		The LCC initially used the Spring Gardens headquarters of the Metropolitan Board of Works but by 1906 decided to buy up three adjacent plots of land on the eastern side of Westminster Bridge for use as a single headquarters.
	london-county-council.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (335 words)

	County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth North, 1939
		The Greater London Council (GLC), which replaced the LCC was abolished in 1986, and the County Hall now houses two hotels, the London Aquarium, and a permanent exhibition of the works of the artist Salvador Dali.
		The new extension blocks to the London County Hall are seen, with the New Bridge public house on extreme right and the National Provincial Bank opposite, at the junction of Westminster Bridge Road and Lambeth Palace Road.
		County Hall, the headquarters of London County Council (LCC) for over sixty years was designed by Ralph Knott and built in phases from 1913.
	www.ideal-homes.org.uk /lambeth/lambeth-north/county-hall-1939.htm (162 words)

	City Mayors: London City Hall
		County Hall was designed for the old London County Council (1889-1965) by Ralph Knott and was opened by King George V in 1922.
		County Hall then served as the headquarters of the Greater London Council (1965-1986), the successor body to the London County Council also headed by Ken Livingstone (then as ‘Leader’).
		The politics of Livingstone being of sufficient irritation to it, the Greater London Council was abolished by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, with the GLC flag being lowered to the sound of Sir Edward Elgar’s ‘Enigma Variations’ at midnight of 31 March 1986.
	www.citymayors.com /cityhalls/london_cityhall.html (1625 words)

	London County Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London, throughout its 1889-1965 existence, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected.
		The creation of the LCC in 1889, as part of the Local Government Act 1888, was forced by a succession of scandals involving the Metropolitan Board of Works (MBW), its predecessor, which had not been directly elected.
		It took over the functions of the London School Board in 1903, and Dr C W Kimmins was appointed chief inspector of the education department in 1904.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_County_Council (733 words)

	SULAIR: British & Commonwealth Literary Studies
		London's County Council was acknowledged as the most progressive metropolitan government in the world.
		Schemes for the drainage of London came to a conclusion in 1858 when Disraeli passed an enabling act and Bazalgette' s designs began to be implemented.
		The Privy Council epoch 1858-1872 was Simon's period of greatest achievement.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/ablit/britlit/sanitary.html (3072 words)

	London (United Kingdom) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Greater London Authority (GLA), comprises the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
		The Mayor of London is responsible for setting the budget and some statutory strategies for five organisations, now known as "the GLA Group".
		Newham is a borough in the east of London, north of the River Thames.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb-e-gla.html (1706 words)

	London County Council Tramways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The London County Council Tramways was an extensive network of public street tramways that was operated by the council throughout the County of London from 1899 to 1933, when they were taken over by the London Passenger Transport Board.
		The next system to be acquired was that of the London Tramways Company in 1899, and from this date on all lines taken over were operated by the county council itself.
		In 1933 the LCC Tramways had 167 miles of tracks in operation, of which about nine were in Leyton, and a quarter of a mile owned by the City of London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_County_Council_Tramways (602 words)

	PhotoLondon: London Metropolitan Archives
		The London County Council had, in 1906, tried unsuccessfully to obtain from Parliament power to provide a motor ambulance and staff for the use of the people of London.
		Initially there were six stations in different parts of the County each with one ambulance and staff to man it day and night.
		On April 1st 1930, these ambulances, together with the one hundred and seven ambulances of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and the forty six of the boards of guardians were welded into one service under the direction of the medical officer of health.
	www.photolondon.org.uk /whole_gallery/glma_ambulance.htm (200 words)

	Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Parish leaders agreed to this because they wanted to maintain their power and ensure that local issues were not overlooked; however, the establishment of local councils was not achieved as soon as planned and the LCC was to alone rule London.
		At the turn of the century a majority of the population growth was in the outer suburbs, and the inner boroughs were experiencing population decline.
		The plan's goal was to evenly distribute population throughout greater London by creating three concentric rings; one of declining population, one of stabilized population, and one of expanding population.
	www.macalester.edu /courses/geog61/buittenbogaa/government.html (939 words)

	Greater London Authority - About the GLA
		The GLA is a unique form of strategic citywide government for London.
		It is made up of a directly elected Mayor - the Mayor of London - and a separately elected Assembly - the London Assembly.
		London council taxpayers contribute a small amount - about 13p a week on a Band D Council Tax bill.
	www.london.gov.uk /gla (487 words)

	The Development of the London Hospital System, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The territory with which it is concerned corresponds roughly with that of the old London County Council.
		Concerned as it is with the issues and debates which affected the London hospitals as a group, and the acute hospitals rather than those dealing with long stay patients or the mentally ill, the book may seem to discount wider developments by concentrating on the capital.
		For the first half of this century the archives of the King's Fund and the London County Council are prolific sources of material.
	www.nhshistory.net /London's_hospitals.htm (1127 words)

	London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1935, s. 64 (original text) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1935, s.
		An Act to confer further powers upon the London County Council and other authorities and for other purposes.
		"borough council" means the council of a borough and "the borough" council" means the council of the borough in relation to which that expression is used;
	members.aol.com /CremSoc3/StatutoryLaw/LCC1935.html (228 words)

	County of London and Greater London Plans
		J.H. Forshaw (architect to the London County Council) and Patrick Abercrombie (professor of Town Planning at UCL) were therefore commissioned to draw up such a plan for the old County of London.
		The authors saw London's four `major defects' as traffic congestion, depressed housing, inadequacy and maldistribution of open spaces, and the jumble of houses and industry ("indeterminate zoning").
		This was intended to "girdle the general limits of the built-up area in London", in conjunction with the Green Belt.
	www.btinternet.com /~roads/lon_mway/abercrombie.html (1338 words)

	LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL RECORD OF WAR SERVICE (1914 18)...
		This book was published by the London County Council, to be presented to each member of the staff who served in the Great War, or to the next-of-kin of those who died on service, as a mark of the Council's appreciation.
		It is a short history of the war so far as the staff were concerned, with brief particulars of their service.
		In the narrative, which takes in all Fronts, it describes the fighting and notes deaths in action and any awards made The chapter on the RAF is based on the official Short History of the RAF.
	www.naval-military-press.com /books/titles/6583.htm (357 words)

	TIME.com: Revolt in the Fortress -- Apr. 18, 1949 -- Page 1
		Long years before the Labor Government came to power, London's County Council was the rock of Fabian Socialism in Britain.
		Gone was Labor's uncontested rule of London and its breezy confidence about the 1950 general elections.
		With 64 seats each in the county council, the Conservatives and Laborites were tied.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,856146,00.html (695 words)

	History of Scouting - CONNECTICUT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This council was absorbed by the Quinnipiac Council in 1978.
		The Fairfield County Council was itself, the result of a number of earlier council mergers.
		CONNECTICUT RIVERS COUNCIL http://www.ctrivers.org/ is based in East Hartford CT, and has a history very similar to that of Connecticut Yankee Council, with this modern day council forming in 1995 and being the final result of over a dozen mergers during the past 90 years.
	www.honorpub.com /scout-e-zine/vol04/council_history/ct_history.htm (2663 words)

	London School Attendance Medals, Certificates and Reward Cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The School Board for London, 1887 to 1904, and the London County Council 1905 to 1920 issued a range of medals and bars in various combinations of finish to encourage and reward regular attendance at their schools.
		The School Board for London, 1887 to 1904, and the London County Council 1905 onwards issued a range of certificates to pupils.
		The School Board for London, 1887 to 1904, and the London County Council 1905 onwards issued many series of Reward Cards.
	www.mernick.co.uk /attendance/index.htm (305 words)

	History & info - Daylight Saving Time idea from Benjamin Franklin
		The idea was first advocated seriously by London builder William Willett (1857-1915) in the pamphlet, "Waste of Daylight" (1907), that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September.
		As he was taking an early morning a ride through Petts Wood, near Croydon, Willett was struck by the fact that the blinds of nearby houses were closed, even though the sun was fully risen.
		The parks belonging to the Office of Works and the London County Council decided to close at dusk, which meant that they would be open an extra hour in the evening.
	webexhibits.org /daylightsaving/c.html (1729 words)

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