In medieval Europe, churches became incorporated, as did local governments, such as the Pope and the City of London Corporation.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council ( GLC ), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.

To address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, Michael Heseltine, formed the London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ) to redevelop the area.

In 2008 Gibraltar was listed for the first time in the Global Financial Centres Index published by the City of London Corporation.

Greater London originally had a two-tier system of local government, with the Greater London Council ( GLC ) sharing power with the City of London Corporation ( governing the small City of London ) and the 32 London borough councils.

Its functions were devolved to the Corporation and the London boroughs with some functions transferred to central government and joint boards.

In England, specifically in the City of London Corporation, more than 100 guilds, referred to as livery companies survive today, and the oldest have been in existence for over a thousand years.

In 1846, Pearson proposed with the support of the City Corporation a central railway station for London located in Farringdon that was estimated to cost £ 1 million ( approximately £ 71. 7 million today ).

* 1887 – 1890: Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti of Liverpool, England is hired by the London Electric Supply Corporation to design the Deptford Power Station.

Their construction was prompted when the Mayor and Corporation of London first banned plays in 1572 as a measure against the plague, and then formally expelled all players from the city in 1575.

The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of ( and head of ) the City of London Corporation.

In 2006 the Corporation of London changed its name to the City of London Corporation.

As head of the Corporation of the City of London, the Lord Mayor is the key spokesman for the local authority and also has important ceremonial and social responsibilities.

The Lord Mayor is a member of the City of London's governing body, the City of London Corporation ( incorporated as The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London ).

Negotiations with the Corporation of the City of London with a view to establishing the LSO as the resident orchestra of the planned Barbican Centre began in the same year.

Noble's decision to sever all RSC connections with the Barbican Centre, funded by the Corporation of the City of London, was widely condemned, and towards the end of his tenure things began to go terribly wrong, partly through his pursuit and support of the so-called Project Fleet, a radical scheme aimed at rescuing the RSC from its financial crisis by replacing the Royal Shakespeare Theatre with a crowd-pleasing ' Shakespeare Village ' and streamlining the company's performance structure and ensemble principle.

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In 1955, RCA sold its Estate large appliance operations to Whirlpool Corporation.

The Woodlands Corporation was acquired on July 31, 1997, by a joint partnership between Morgan Stanley and Crescent Real Estate Equities.

The Corporation eventually sold it to Sir John Hobart, and through him it passed to the ownership of the Blickling Estate.

In October 2010 MeyGen, a consortium of Morgan Stanley, Atlantis Resources Corporation and International Power, received operational lease from the Crown Estate to a 400MW project for 25 years.

* Estate, a brand of major appliances, first from RCA, afterwards from Whirlpool Corporation.

The Metropolitan Transport Corporation has a terminus called the ' Anna Square ' terminus at the northern end of the beach, Triplicane Terminus near Kannagi statue / Pycrofts Road, Vivekananda House ( Ice House ) Terminus and Foreshore Estate terminus.

Originally managed by Mitsubishi Estate Co., Fuji Speedway was acquired by Toyota Motor Corporation in 2000.

He was a Third-class Clerk, Treasury Department, Lagos ( 1921 – 1924 ); Recruit, Gold Coast Police Force ( Jul .- September 1924 ); Solicitor Clerk to the late Mr. Justice Graham Paul at Calabar ( Jan .- Aug. 1925 ); Instructor in Political Science, Lincoln University ( 1931 – 34 ); University Correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American ( 1928 – 34 ); General and Sports Correspondent for the Philadelphia Tribune ( 1928 – 34 ); Editor-in Chief of the West African Pilot ( 1937 – 45 ); Correspondent for the Associated Negro Press ( 1944 – 47 ); Correspondent for Reuters ( 1944 – 46 ); Managing Director of Zik ’ s Press Limited printers and publishers of the West African Pilot ( Lagos ), Eastern Guardian ( Port Harcourt ), Nigerian Spokesman ( Onitsha ), Southern Nigeria Defender ( Ibadan ), Daily Comet ( Kano ), and Eastern Sentinel ( Enugu ); Managing Director of Comet Press Limited ( 1945 – 53 ); Chairman of West African Pilot Limited and the Associated Newspapers of Nigeria Limited and six other limited liability companies ( 1952 – 53 ); Chairman, Nigerian Real Estate Corporation Limited ( 1952 – 53 ); etc.

His name can be found on the affluent Lawrence Park and Lawrence Park West neighborhoods, the Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate Corporation, and on Lawrence Hospital in downtown Bronxville, an institution that was created when Lawrence ’ s son, Dudley, nearly died en route to a hospital in neighboring New York City.

In 1969, he had been President of the Real Estate Fund of America, whose Chief Executive, Jerome Hoffman, had been imprisoned for fraud ; Maudling had also been an adviser to the Peachey Property Corporation, whose Chairman Sir Eric Miller had embezzled company money and later committed suicide.

Brown ’ s top contributors included CSX Corporation, a freight transportation company with its headquarters in Jacksonville, FL, Carnival Corp., Picerne Real Estate Group, Union Pacific Corp and Berkshire Hathaway.

Other underwriters throughout the show's tenure included Parks Corporation ( featuring its line of Carver Tripp paint thinners / sealants / wood stains and treatments ), Glidden paints, Montgomery Ward, Ace Hardware, Kohler plumbing, Schlage locks, Century 21 Real Estate, Toro lawnmowers / snowblowers and ERA Real Estate.

Seattle-based Plum Creek Real Estate Investment Corporation, the largest private United States landowner, submitted a development proposal for the Moosehead region in April, 2005.

He worked in his family's architectural and development business and became vice president of Charter Real Estate Corporation in 1989.

Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation has developed a mega industrial Estate in Jhagadia, Where Companies Like Saint-Gobain Pepsico United Phosperous Kohler S. Kumar Birla Century Gulbrandson Welspun ( Remimetals ) Metco Roof

In 1960, the Estate came under the control of the ' Welsh Industrial Estates Corporation ' and later the Welsh Development Agency.

It is built on land purchased by the Liverpool Corporation from the Molyneux Estate.

Bin Byat previously held the roles of Secretary-General of the Dubai Executive Council ; President of the Dubai Government Excellence Programme ; Executive Chairman of TECOM Investments ; Chairman of the Dubai Education Council ; Chairman of Dubai Real Estate Corporation ; Chairman of the Dubai Urban Planning Committee ; member of the Board of Trustees for Zayed University ; Chairman of the Founding Committee at Aswaaq ; Chairman of the Board of Directors at The Consulting Office, and a member of the Board of Thuraya Telecommunications Company.

He also oversaw the creation of the Dubai Real Estate Corporation ( DREC ), which was tasked to own and manage all properties registered under the name of the Dubai Government.

* Dubai Real Estate Corporation

Sony / ATV Music Publishing is a music publishing company co-owned by the Estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Corporation.

His business interests are varied and include being the proprietor of CedarCreek Estate Winery, General Partner DRF & Associates, Chairman of Greata Ranch Development Corporation and Chairman of Channel Resources.

London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican Hall

* In February 2012 a London based Theatre company Improbable performed a string of shows at the Barbican Theatre London, called " The Devil & Mr Punch " which is an adaptation of the Punch & Judy story.

* March 3 – Elizabeth II opens the Barbican Centre in London.

The first verifiable live performance of Alfano's original ending was not mounted until 3 November 1982, by the Chelsea Opera Group at the Barbican Centre in London.

Frobisher Crescent, part of the Barbican Estate in London, is named after Frobisher.

The Royal Opera in London has only given one performance of the opera, a concert version in March 1998 at the Barbican Centre, with Samuel Ramey as the title character.

In addition, students of the school regularly perform in other London venues, including the Barbican Centre, the Bridewell Theatre ( off Fleet Street ), the Soho Theatre, the Swan ( Stratford ) and the Royal Court.

The production played to full houses, especially at the Barbican in London.

He has had almost 50 books published, and featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide-including an exhibition at the Barbican Arts Centre, London.

This piece was commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and the Barbican Centre, London.

The BBC SO is the associate orchestra of the Barbican Centre in London, where it gives an annual season of concerts.

Since 1982, the LSO has been based in the Barbican Centre in the City of London.

Twenty years later, in the summer of 1982, the company took up London residence in both the Barbican Theatre and The Pit studio space in the Barbican Centre under the auspices of the City of London.

The company's London presence has included tenancies of the Aldwych Theatre, The Place in Duke's Road, Euston, the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden, the Barbican Theatre and The Pit at the Barbican Centre in the City of London.

However, another Arts Council report of the same period recommended that the RPO should supplement the London Symphony Orchestra as resident orchestra at the Barbican Centre ; neither proposal came to fruition.

In December 2004, he hosted the London Gay Men's Chorus Christmas Show, Make the Yuletide Gay at the Barbican Centre in London.