The Greater London Council was abolished in 1986 by the Local Government Act 1985.

In 1986, the metropolitan county councils and Greater London were abolished.

The authority was established to replace a range of joint boards and quangos and provided an elected upper tier of local government in London for the first time since the abolition of the Greater London Council in 1986.

The Greater London Council ( GLC ) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986.

Abbott was a press officer at the Greater London Council under Ken Livingstone from 1985 to 1986 and Head of Press and Public Relations at Lambeth Council from 1986 to 1987.

She belonged to an experienced political dynasty: her father, Morgan Phillips, was a former coalminer who served as General Secretary of the Labour Party between 1944 and 1962 ; her mother, Norah Phillips was a former member of London County Council who became a life peer in 1964, serving as a government whip in the House of Lords, and as Lord Lieutenant of Greater London from 1978 to 1986.

Inspiral Carpets were formed in Oldham, Greater Manchester in 1986.

After the failure of a court case brought by the Greater London Council in 1985, outline planning permission was granted in May of that year, followed by the grant of detailed planning permission in early 1986.

Bamberger's, which had aggressively expanded throughout New Jersey, into the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan area in the 1960s and 1970s as well as into Nanuet, New York ( southern Rockland County ), and into the Baltimore Metropolitan area in the early 1980s, was renamed Macy's New Jersey in 1986.

Dr. Floyd H. Flake ( 1945-), former U. S. Congressman from New York ( 1986 – 1998 ); senior pastor of the Greater Allen AME Cathedral in Jamaica, New York ; current President of Wilberforce University

Thatcher's other chief opponent in local government, Ken Livingstone of the Greater London Council, was left powerless when she abolished the metropolitan county councils and GLC in 1986.

The status of the London boroughs and metropolitan districts changed in 1986, when they absorbed the functions and some of the powers of the metropolitan county councils and the Greater London Council which were abolished.

Between 1965 and 1986 a two-tier structure of government existed in Greater London and the boroughs shared power with the Greater London Council ( GLC ).

Prior to that the Manchester Airport Board operated Manchester Airport from 1986, when the Greater Manchester County Council was disbanded.

In 1986 the metropolitan county councils and the Greater London Council were abolished, returning the boroughs to a county borough status, sharing some powers ( police and transport for example ).

( 1987 ) Field identification of Greater and Lesser Sandplovers, pp. 15 – 20 in International Bird Identification: Proceeedings of the 4th International Identification Meeting, Eilat, 1st-8th November 1986 International Birdwatching Centre Eilat

( 1987 ) Field identification of Greater and Lesser Sandplovers, pp. 15 – 20 in International Bird Identification: Proceeedings of the 4th International Identification Meeting, Eilat, 1st-8th November 1986 International Birdwatching Centre Eilat

When the Greater London Council ( LCC's successor ) was abolished in 1986, the Hall was taken over by the Arts Council.

He later joined the Labour Party, and during the 1970s and 1980s was a prominent Labour member of the Greater London Council, representing Hammersmith ( 1970 – 1977 ) and Tooting ( 1981 – 1986 ).

The London Residuary Body was a body set up in 1985 to dispose of the assets of the Greater London Council after the council's abolition in 1986.

In 1986 the Greater London Council transferred responsibility for the park to the London borough of Tower Hamlets and the London Borough of Hackney, through a joint management board.

* Alexander, FM The Universal Constant In Living, Dutton ( New York, 1941 ), Chaterson ( London, 1942 ), later editions 1943, 1946, Centerline Press ( USA, 1941, 1986 ), Mouritz ( UK, 2000 ) ISBN 0-913111-18-X, ISBN 978-0-913111-18-5, ISBN 0-9525574-4-4

* Bob Brunning ( 1986 ), Blues: The British Connection, London: Helter Skelter, 2002.

London: Verso, 1986.

London: Verso, 1986.

London: Methuen, 1986.

( 1986 ) Empress Taytu and Menelik II: Ethiopia 1883-1910, London: Ravens Educational & Development Services, ISBN 0-947895-01-9

* Paul Fiddes, A leading question: the structure and authority of leadership in the local church ( London: Baptist Publications, 1986 )

Absolute Beginners ( 1986 ), a rock musical based on Colin MacInnes's 1959 novel about London life, featured Bowie's music and presented him with a minor acting role.

Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota P, 1986.

* Chapman, Raymond, The Sense of the Past in Victorian Literature, London, CroomHelm, 1986, ISBN 0-7099-3441-6.

In the early 1980s political disputes between the GLC run by Ken Livingstone and the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher led to the GLC's abolition in 1986, with most of its powers relegated to the London boroughs.

* 1986 – In London, England, United Kingdom, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.

* Kenrick, Philip M. ( 1986 ), Excavations at Sabratha, 1948-1951: a Report on the Excavations conducted by Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins, ( Journal of Roman Studies Monographs 2 ), London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1986.

* Phillip Knightley, The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century, 1986, published by W. W. Norton & Company, London.

A few sections, based on the now abandoned London Ringways plan, were constructed in the early 1970s and it was completed in 1986.

On 23 August 1986, tens of thousands of demonstrators in 21 western cities including New York, London, Stockholm, Toronto, Seattle, and Perth participated in Black Ribbon Day Rallies to draw attention to the secret protocols.

* 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

** Artur London, Czech statesman ( d. 1986 )

In 1986, a location was opened in London on Coventry Street ( between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus ) followed by a second location in Earls Court near the Earl's Court tube station.

London: Hutchinson, 1986.