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7 unusual facts about London County Council


Arthur Cowper Ranyard

He took an interest in public affairs, and in 1892 was elected a member of the London County Council, where he did important work, especially in connection with the new (London) Building Act, which passed into law in the summer of 1894.

Britwell

Britwell was one of a number of London County Council estates built at the time, with other estates in places including Langley and Swindon.

George Gater

He was Director of Education in Lancashire betwee 1919 and 1924, before becoming Education Officer at London County Council until 1933.

Karl Vernon

Outside rowing he was an architect, spending at least some of his career at the London County Council.

Margaret Wingfield

She stood several times for parliament and the London County Council, for Wokingham in 1964 and 1966, Walthamstow West in a 1967 by-election, and Chippenham in 1970, but was never elected.

Maurice Matthews

From 1931-36 he sat on the London County Council, representing St Pancras South West as a member of the Conservative-backed Municipal Reform Party.

Open air school

The first open air school in England was built in London, in 1907 at Bostall Wood, Plumstead by London County Council.


Beechholme

Later, children came from other parts of London and the London County Council took over responsibility, followed by Wandsworth Borough Council.

Bertram Kelly

After finishing his education, Kelly took up electric lighting posts with Midland Railway, London County Council and Hornsey Borough Council.

Colin St John Wilson

After graduating, he worked at the London County Council architects department from 1950 to 1955, under the directorship of Sir Leslie Martin, alongside James Stirling, Alison and Peter Smithson, Alan Colquhoun, Peter Carter, and William Howell.

Colin Stansfield Smith

He worked in various architect's offices, including the LCC and the GLC in London.

David Don

In 1938 the London County Council marked Don at 32 Soho Square with a rectangular stone plaque, commemorating him as well as botanists Joseph Banks and Robert Brown and meetings of the Linnean Society.

Derek Wilson

Wilson then left New Zealand and worked in London for Ramsey, Murray, White and Ward (the firm of two New Zealand ex-pats Keith Murray and Basil Ward), as well as for Sir Hugh Casson and the London County Council.

Dorina Neave

Apart from her books about Turkey, Lady Dorina has historical significance as the last of the "landed gentry" to live in Dagnam Park, before the policies of Britain's post-war Labour government constrained her to reside in her second home in Anglesey, owing to a compulsory purchase order made by the LCC.

Edward Prentice Mawson

Large-scale town planning schemes include London County Council's St Helier Estate (1934), and for Ulster Garden Villages Limited in Northern Ireland, Merville Garden Village, Abbots Cross, Fernagh, Princes Park, Kings Park, Whitehead and Muckamore Garden Villages, all in County Antrim.

Fielding Reginald West

Following the war he moved to London where he attended the Regent Street Polytechnic and London Day Training College, before taking up employment as a schoolteacher in at the London County Council West Kensington Central School.

Godfrey Lushington

He retired from the civil service in 1895 and became an alderman of London County Council, a position held until 1898 when he became one of the British Government delegates to the Rome Anti-Anarchist Congress, (24 November to 21 December 1898) with Sir Philip Currie and Sir C. Howard Vincent.

Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway

Starting in 1923, a series of legislative initiatives were made in this direction, with Ashfield and Labour London County Councillor (later MP and Minister of Transport) Herbert Morrison, at the forefront of debates as to the level of regulation and public control under which transport services should be brought.

Percy Johnson-Marshall

Johnson-Marshall worked as a Senior Planner with London County Council from 1949 to 1959, overseeing several Comprehensive Development Areas, including Lansbury Estate.

Rotherhithe Tunnel

Designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, the Engineer to the London County Council, construction was authorised by the Thames Tunnel (Rotherhithe and Ratcliff) Act 1900 despite considerable opposition from local residents, nearly 3,000 of whom were displaced by the works.

Royal Festival Hall

The Festival Hall project was led by London County Council’s chief architect, Robert Matthew, who gathered around him a young team of talented designers including Leslie Martin, who was eventually to lead the project with Edwin Williams and Peter Moro, along with the furniture designer Robin Day and his wife, the textile designer Lucienne Day.


see also

Brixton by-election, 1927

Nigel Colman was the Conservative and Unionist Party candidate was a business man, a breeder and exhibitor of light horses and represented Brixton on the London County Council.

George Hume

Sir George Hopwood Hume (1866–1946), leader of the London County Council and member of parliament for Greenwich

Harold Shearman

He was Chairman of the London County Council and subsequently first Chairman from 1964-66 of the Greater London Council, Chairman of the Inner London Educational Authortiy, President from 1962-71 of the School Journey Association, and a member of the Robbins Committee.

Laurence Gomme

He attended the City of London School to the age of sixteen, when he started work, first with a railway company, then with the Fulham board of works, finally, in 1873, with the Metropolitan Board of Works: he remained with it and its successor, the London County Council, until his retirement in 1914.

Salomon van Abbé

He studied at London County Council Schools, the People’s Palace, Toynbee Hall, Central School of Art and at the LCC School of Photoengraving and Lithography at Bolt Court where he met Edmund Blampied, Robert Charles Peter and John Nicolson, all fellow etchers.

Walter Yates

Walter Baldwyn Yates, English barrister and member of the London County Council