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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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  • 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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    grave 57. Noble is commemorated by a Blue Plaque in Capstone Road, Bournemouth, unveiled on 2 October 1995. The plaque gives Noble's rank as Corporal, in...
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  • This is a list of the 1016 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Museum (Royal Warwickshire), Warwick, England. On 26 January 2008, a blue plaque was erected on Holyhead House, Phillips' childhood home, at 54b, Hill...
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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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  • 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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    British Association (1952) On 9 September 2015, an English Heritage Blue plaque was erected at Hill's former home, 16 Bishopswood Road, Highgate, where...
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  • Unveiling of a Blue Plaque to Edith Pechey". Leeds Civic Trust. Retrieved 2 February 2022. We are pleased to announce that our 181st Blue Plaque has been unveiled...
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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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  • 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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    subject of several books and documentaries, and is commemorated by a blue plaque in Leeds. Oluwale was born in Lagos, Nigeria, around 1930. In August...
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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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    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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    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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    11 High Street, Llandaff (category Blue plaques)
    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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  • They lived at 21 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London, which now bears a blue plaque. As a Quaker, Penrose had been a pacifist, but after the outbreak of...
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  • English Heritage blue plaques in the London Borough of Camden. "Lord Lister (1827-1912) Surgeon lived here". OpenPlaques. OpenPlaques. Retrieved 8 September...
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    Retrieved 13 March 2022. "Johnston Forbes-Robertson black plaque in London". Blue plaques. Retrieved 18 July 2018. "National Council for Voluntary Organisations"...
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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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    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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    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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  • the 327 blue plaques placed by English Heritage and its predecessors in the City of Westminster in London. List of English Heritage blue plaques in Camden...
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    to Queen's 40th anniversary. On 1 September 2016, an English Heritage blue plaque was unveiled at Mercury's home in 22 Gladstone Avenue in Feltham, west...
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    Davis album Kind of Blue (1959), the festival invited jazz fans to submit nomination for an award, in the form of a Blue plaque to be awarded annually...
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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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