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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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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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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"Why Exeter honoured a pigeon with a blue plaque today". 20 January 2018. "Exeter war hero pigeon Mary to get blue plaque". BBC News. 20 January 2018....
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Pete Ham (section Blue Plaque)
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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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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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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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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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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Diana Dors (section Blue plaque)
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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Noor Inayat Khan (section Blue plaque)
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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Cecil Noble (section Blue Plaque)
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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English Heritage (section Blue plaque)
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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Listerine (redirect from Listerine Agent Cool Blue)
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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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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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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"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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club in 1991.: 342 A blue plaque was placed at Wight's childhood home in Glasgow in October 2018. There is also a blue plaque at 23 Kirkgate, Wight's...
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Fred Russell (ventriloquist) (section Blue plaque)
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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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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Archibald Hill (section Blue plaque)
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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Death of David Oluwale (section Blue plaque)
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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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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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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David Gestetner (section Blue Plaque)
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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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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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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Retrieved 13 August 2024. "Claudia Jones Blue Plaque unveiled". ITZ Caribbean. 22 August 2008. "Claudia Jones". Open Plaques. "The Notting Hill Carnival on stamps"...
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