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Ex-mayor’s backing
A FORMER mayor of the old Marylebone Borough Council has joined the Macintosh House debate.
Lord Plummer of St Marylebone, who lives in St John’s Wood, described the closure of the old people’s home as “terrible”.
The 94-year-old baron – who as Desmond Plummer was the longest serving leader of the Greater London Council between 1967 and 1973 and Marylebone mayor between 1952 and 1958 – remembered Lady Mary Macintosh, who the building is named after, as a “bloody nuisance”.
He said: “She was always running around campaigning about this, that and the other. She spent a hell of a lot of time campaigning.”
But Lord Plummer – a former President of the Conservative Carlton Club who was given a life peerage in 1981 – said her cause was a necessary one.
He added: “Most of my memories of Marylebone Borough Council are lost in the mists of time. But I do remember that when I joined the council the provision of services was a big issue. Some people thought that if you voted the right way you would be allocated a home when you got old. I thought that was immoral, it was one of the reasons I joined.”
On the Macintosh House closure he said: “Westminster Council runs a pretty tight ship all right.” |
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