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* Greater Manchester Council, a former local authority for Greater Manchester, England
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When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).
Coronation Street is a British television soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford.
On 7 July 2010 it was announced that Coronation Street was working with The Mill and the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive ( responsible for the operation of Manchester Metrolink ) to film a spectacular and realistic tram crash.
In 1969 it recommended a system of single-tier unitary authorities for the whole of England, apart from three metropolitan areas of Merseyside, Selnec ( Greater Manchester ) and West Midlands ( Birmingham and the Black Country ), which were to have both a metropolitan council and district councils.
Granada TV also featured the cab, which is now in its 4th vehicle and operates in Bolton, Greater Manchester as Clint's Karaoke Cab.
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League.
In 1999, he was created a life peer, as Baron Foster of Thames Bank, of Reddish in the County of Greater Manchester.
* Philips Semiconductors, Hazel Grove, Stockport, Greater Manchester and Southampton, Hampshire, both also earlier part of Mullard.
More problematic interpretations suggest that it could also have reached as far south as Rochdale in Greater Manchester, recorded in the Domesday Book as Recedham.
* Trams feature in the opening credits of the world's longest running TV soap opera Coronation Street, set in a fictional suburb of Greater Manchester.
** Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998 at Hyde, Greater Manchester, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
* Stockport Lacrosse Club is founded at Cale Green Cricket Club Davenport, Greater Manchester where they still play to this day.
** Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, is born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK.
** Greater Manchester Police recover the body of 16-year-old Pauline Reade from Saddleworth Moor, after her killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley helped them in their search, almost exactly 24 years since Pauline was last seen alive.
** Greater Manchester Police announce that they are to search for the bodies of 2 missing children ( who both vanished more than 20 years ago ) after the Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley confess to 2 more murders.
* 1, 276 km < sup > 2 </ sup > — Greater Manchester, England
Today " Mercia " appears in the titles of two regiments, the new Mercian Regiment ( which recruits in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Worcestershire and parts of Greater Manchester and the West Midlands ) and the Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry.
Category: History of Greater Manchester
* Salem, Greater Manchester, within Oldham, England
* Stretford, a town in Trafford, Greater Manchester
* Brunswick, Greater Manchester, England
The region comprises five ceremonial counties of England – Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire.
* Hyde Park, in Hyde, Greater Manchester
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`` Meet the Artist '' is the invitation issued by members of the Greater Philadelphia Section of the National Council of Jewish Women as they arrange for an annual exhibit and sale of paintings and sculpture at the Philmont Country Club on April 8 and 9.
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.
The term Greater London was used well before 1965, particularly to refer to the area covered by the Metropolitan Police District ( such as in the 1901 census ), the area of the Metropolitan Water Board ( favoured by the London County Council for statistics ), the London Passenger Transport Area and the area defined by the Registrar General as the Greater London Conurbation.
London County Council proposed a vast new area for Greater London, with a proposed boundary somewhere between the Metropolitan Police District and the home counties.
Arms of the former Greater London Council
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.
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.
The Greater London Council was abolished in 1986 by the Local Government Act 1985.
Due to this outward expansion, in 1965 the old County of London ( which by now only covered part of the London conurbation ) and the London County Council were abolished, and the much larger area of Greater London was established with a new Greater London Council ( GLC ) to administer it, along with 32 new London boroughs.
The area of responsibility was reduced to that of the Greater London administrative area in 1970 when the Greater London Council, and then London Regional Transport took over responsibility.
The London Passenger Transport Act 1933 removed responsibility for of tram route from the London County Council, three county boroughs and a number of other local authorities in the Greater London area.
The Greater London Council was the transport authority from 1 January 1970 to 28 June 1984 and the executive agency was called the London Transport Executive.
The legislation creating the Greater London Council ( GLC ) was already passed in 1963 when the London Transport Board was created.
Following the Greater London Council election in 1981, the incoming Labour administration simplified fares in Greater London by introducing four new bus fare zones and two central London Underground zones, named City and West End, where flat fares applied for the first time.
Maluleka later became the chairman of the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan City Council ( later City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality ), then was elected Speaker of the Tshwane Metro Council and in 2004 was chosen to be a member of the South African Parliament for the Soshanguve constituency.
During this period, the College was governed by the Victoria College Council, representative of the parent University of British Columbia, the Greater Victoria School Board, and the provincial Department of Education.
* January 20 – The Greater London Council announces its plans for the Thames Barrier at Woolwich to prevent flooding ( the barrier opens in 1981 ).
Greater and former
Asociación Alumni, usually just Alumni, is a rugby union and former football club located in Tortuguitas, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sciacca is a former political reporter and columnist who is a regular panelist on " Beat the Press " on the WGBH TV show Greater Boston, which is hosted by Emily Rooney.
Indonesia claimed all territories of the former Dutch East Indies, and previously viewed British plans to group the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, the Unfederated Malay States, Sarawak and British North Borneo into a new independent federation of Malaysia as a threat to its objective to create a united state called Greater Indonesia.
The idea of uniting former British and Dutch colonial possessions in Southeast Asia actually have its roots in early 20th century, as the concept of Greater Malay ( Melayu Raya ) was coined in British Malaya espoused by students and graduates of Sultan Idris Training College for Malay Teachers in the late 1920s.
It further affected the German minority living within the territory of the former Second Polish Republic in Greater Poland, eastern Upper Silesia, Chełmno Land and the Polish Corridor with Danzig.
* Greater Sudbury, Ontario, was formed in 2001 by the amalgamation of the former Regional Municipality of Sudbury, comprising the municipalites of Sudbury, Nickel Centre, Valley East, Capreol, Rayside-Balfour, Onaping Falls and Walden, plus a number of previously unamalgamated townships.
The United States, on the other side, proclaimed the state of Greater Hesse ( Groß-Hessen ) on 19 September 1945, out of Hesse-Darmstadt and most of the former Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau.
The Lord Mayor of London is to be distinguished from the Mayor of London ; the former is an officer only of the City of London, while the Mayor of London is the Mayor of Greater London and as such governs a much larger area.
Greater Poland is a major transport hub within Poland, a great deal of traffic from Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union pass through Poznań and Konin to reach Germany and other EU member states.
Greater progressivity was introduced in the tax system, with greater emphasis on direct ( income-based ) as opposed to indirect ( typically expenditure-based ) taxation as a means of raising revenue, with the amount raised by the former increasing twice as much as that of the latter.
GLC councillors elected for areas within the former County of London became ex officio members of the new Inner London Education Authority, which took over the LCC responsibility for education ; in Outer London, which was the rest of Greater London, the various London boroughs each became a local education authority, akin to a county council or county borough in the rest of England.
David Lean was born in Croydon, Surrey ( now part of Greater London ), to Francis William le Blount Lean and the former Helena Tangye ( niece of Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye ).
The YMCA of Greater Seattle turned their former residence into Transitional Housing for former Foster Care and current Homeless youth 18 – 25.
In 1965 the metropolitan borough was abolished and its former area became the southern part of the London Borough of Southwark in Greater London.
In 1965 the former area of the borough was merged with that of the boroughs of Ealing and Acton to form the London Borough of Ealing in Greater London.
* Ken Livingstone ( born 1945 ), former Mayor of London, was the representative for Stoke Newington on the Greater London Council between 1977 – 1981.
In 1965 the borough was abolished and its former area merged with that of the Municipal Borough of Chingford and the Municipal Borough of Leyton to form the London Borough of Waltham Forest in Greater London.
In 1965 the municipal borough was abolished and its former area was transferred to Greater London from Middlesex under the London Government Act 1963 to form the London Borough of Harrow.
The borough was formed in 1965, by the London Government Act 1963, from the combined areas of the former Municipal Borough of Chingford, Municipal Borough of Leyton and Municipal Borough of Walthamstow, which were all transferred to Greater London from Essex.
The London Borough of Havering was created in 1965 by the combined former area of the Municipal Borough of Romford and Hornchurch Urban District which had been transferred to Greater London from Essex by the London Government Act 1963.
It comprised the former area of the Municipal Borough of Bromley, the Municipal Borough of Beckenham, Penge Urban District, Orpington Urban District and the Chislehurst part of Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District, which was transferred from Kent to Greater London.
The constituent parts were the greater part of the Municipal Borough of Barking and the entire Municipal Borough of Dagenham, the former area of which was transferred to Greater London from Essex.
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