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    A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link...
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    list of blue plaques is an annotated list of people or events in the United Kingdom that have been commemorated by blue plaques. The plaques themselves...
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    A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, or in other places referred to as a historical marker, historic marker, or historic plaque, is a plate of metal...
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    The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board established in 1999 was the brainchild of Sir Hugo Brunner, then Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, and Edwin Townsend-Coles...
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    September 2014. "Pete Ham blue plaque". Swansea. Retrieved 20 June 2024. "Badfinger's Pete Ham: Beatle widow Olivia Harrison joins plaque tributes". BBC News...
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  • This is a list of the 1003 blue plaques placed by English Heritage and its predecessors in the boroughs of London, the City of Westminster, and the City...
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    system; Blue Plaque at Gothic Lodge, 6 Woodhayes Road. Oliver Reed (1938–1999), actor Margaret Rutherford (1892–1972), actress, Blue Plaque at 4 Berkeley...
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    2022. "Diana Dors". SWINDON HERITAGE BLUE PLAQUES. Retrieved 4 March 2022. "Diana Dors' birthplace blue plaque unveiled". BBC News. 14 January 2017....
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    WWII honoured with blue plaque". Sky News. Retrieved 28 August 2020. "Spy becomes first woman of south Asian descent to get blue plaque in London | Second...
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    best-preserved parts of Hadrian's Wall. English Heritage also manages the London blue plaque scheme, which links influential historical figures to particular buildings...
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    issues voluntary nationwide consumer recall of Listerine Agent Cool Blue plaque-detecting rinse products" (Press release). McNeil-PPC. 2007-04-11. Retrieved...
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    records. Noble is commemorated by a Blue Plaque in Capstone Road, Bournemouth, unveiled on 2nd October 1995. The Blue Plaque gives Noble's rank as Corporal...
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  • green plaque funded by Leicestershire County Council was placed on Chapman's former home in Burton Road, Melton Mowbray. A year later, a blue plaque at the...
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    and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits and Matilda. In September 2009 a blue plaque was unveiled by his widow, Felicity, and his son Theo, on one of his...
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    April 2022. Plaques, Open. "Enid Blyton blue plaque". openplaques.org. Retrieved 19 April 2022. Plaques, Open. "Ewan MacColl blue plaque". openplaques...
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  • Headington Quarry. An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque was unveiled on her house on 27 July 2019. In May 2024 a blue plaque in Joan Clarke's memory was unveiled...
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  • Eastbourne Blue Plaques is a scheme for erecting blue plaques in Eastbourne, England. It was implemented in 1993 following a suggestion to Eastbourne Borough...
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    "Blue Plaque unveiled on Freddie Mercury's first London home". BBC News. 2 September 2016. "Freddie Mercury Awarded English Heritage Blue Plaque". English...
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    artworks, been the subject of several books and documentaries, and a blue plaque in Leeds commemorates his life. Oluwale was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in...
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    not thought to have hastened his departure". Larry was honoured with a blue plaque at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in October 2012. The beetle species Caccothryptus...
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  • UK blue plaque programmes run by English Heritage, local authorities and other bodies, the first permanent rainbow plaque (a blue circular plaque with...
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    Lodge, Upper Maze Hill, St Leonards-on-Sea, now marked with a blue plaque. The plaque was unveiled on 23 June 2012, the centenary of Turing's birth....
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  • Blackburn has several plaques placed in locations of historic significance. A blue plaque scheme, consisting of twenty-four plaques in the style of the...
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  • interred in a plot with those of his first wife. An Aldershot Civic Society blue plaque was unveiled by actor and singer Jess Conrad OBE on 15 July 2017 at 22...
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    John Scott Medal by The Franklin Institute in 1888. On 12 March 2011 a Blue Plaque was placed on his home at 124 Highbury New Park in north London. The...
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  • recipients of an English Heritage blue plaque in 2024, alongside Christina Broom, Diana Beck and Irene Barclay. A blue plaque was unveiled at her former home...
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    full-time secretary to answer mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes. In 1990, a blue plaque signifying 221B Baker Street was installed at the Sherlock Holmes Museum...
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    Russell lived in Kenilworth Court in Putney, London, from 1914 to 1926. A blue plaque by the entrance of Kenilworth Court commemorates him. Obituary, The Times...
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  • This is a list of the blue plaques placed by English Heritage and its predecessors in the boroughs of London, the City of Westminster, and the City of...
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    birthday) the first blue plaque in his honour was unveiled in Llandaff. Rather than commemorating his place of birth, however, the plaque was erected on the...
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