List of blue plaques

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This 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 are permanent signs installed in publicly-visible locations on buildings to commemorate either a famous person who lived or worked in the building (or site) or an event that occurred within the building.[1] See also Category:Buildings with blue plaques.

Contents

[edit] London/English Heritage plaques

These are blue plaques issued by the Royal Society of Arts or its successors in administering the blue plaque programme: the London County Council, the Greater London Council, and English Heritage.[1] The entries in the lists in this section are based on information from the English Heritage website (http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1494) unless otherwise noted.

[edit] People

[edit] A

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Matthew Arnold
(1822-1888)
Poet and critic 2 Chester Square
Westminster, WC2
1954
Albert Henry Stanley, Lord Ashfield
(1874-1948)
First chairman of London Transport 43 South Street
Mayfair, Westminster, W1
1984

[edit] B

Person Notability Address Year Issued
John Logie Baird
(1888-1946)
First demonstration of television 22 Frith Street
Westminster, W1
1951
John Logie Baird
(1888-1946)
Television pioneer 3 Crescent Wood Road
Sydenham, Lewisham, SE26
1977
Sir Michael Balcon
(1896-1977)
Film producer Ealing Film Studios, Ealing Green
Ealing W5
2005
William Henry Barlow
(1812-1902)
Engineer High Combe, 145 Carlton Road
Charlton, Greenwich, SE7
1991
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette
(1819-1891)
Civil engineer 17 Hamilton Terrace
St John's Wood, Westminster, NW8
1974
Aubrey Beardsley
(1872-1898)
Artist Hampton Branch Library, Rose Hill
Hampton, Richmond Upon Thames
1948
Sir Max Beerbohm
(1872-1956)
Caricaturist, author and parodyist 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, London 1969
Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925) Artist 14 Adamson Road, Hampstead, NW3 1999
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
(1833-1898)
Artist 41 Kensington Square
Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea, W8
1998
Frances Hodgson Burnett
(1849-1924)
Writer 63 Portland Place
Westminster, W1
1979
William Butterfield
(1814-1900)
Architect 42 Bedford Square
Camden, WC1
1978

[edit] C

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Colen Campbell
(1676-1729)
Architect and author of Vitruvius Britannicus 76 Brook Street
Westminster, W1
1977
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
(1836-1908)
Prime Minister 6 Grosvenor Place
Westminster, SW1
1959
Charles X of France
(1757-1836)
Last Bourbon King of France 72 South Audley Street
Westminster, W1
2000
Sir Henry Cole
(1808-1882)
Campaigner, educator, first director of the Victoria and Albert Museum 33 Thurloe Square
South Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea, SW7
1991
Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859-1930)
Creator of Sherlock Holmes 12 Tennison Road
South Norwood, Croydon, SE25
1973
Captain James Cook
(1728-1779)
Circumnavigator and explorer 88 Mile End Road
Tower Hamlets, E1
1970
Charles Coward
(1905-1976)
Rescuer of Jews from Auschwitz 133 Chichester Road
Enfield, N9
1995

[edit] D

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland
(1882 – 1965)
Aviation pioneer and aircraft engineer 32 Barons Court Road
Hammersmith and Fulham, W14
2001
Sir Frank Dyson
(1868-1939)
Astronomer Royal 6 Vanbrugh Hill
Blackheath, Greenwich, SE3
1990

[edit] E

Person Notability Address Year Issued
John Scott, Lord Eldon
(1751-1838)
Lord Chancellor 6 Bedford Square
Camden, WC1
1954
T. S. Eliot
(1888-1965)
Poet 3 Kensington Court Gardens
Kensington and Chelsea, W8
1986
George Elkington
Promoter of electro-plating The old Science Museum, Newhall Street, Birmingham[2]
Dame Edith Evans
(1888-1976)
Actress 109 Ebury Street
Victoria, Westminster, SW1
1997
Sir Geraint Evans
(1922-1994)
Opera singer 44 Birchwood road
Petts Wood, Kent
1997

[edit] F

Person Notability Address Year Issued
CB Fry
(1872-1956)
All-round Sportsman 144 St James’s Road
Croydon, CRO
2005
Charles James Freake
(1814-1984)
Builder and Patron of the Arts 21 Cromwell Road
London, SW7
1981

[edit] G

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Mahatma Gandhi
(1869-1948)
Kingsley Hall, Powis Road
Tower Hamlets, E3
1954
Mahatma Gandhi
(1869-1948)
20 Baron's Court Road
Hammersmith and Fulham, W14
1986
Anna Maria Garthwaite
(1688-1763)
Textile designer 2 Princelet Street
Spitalfields, E1
1998
W. G. Grace
(1848-1915)
Cricketer Fairmount, Mottingham Lane
Mottingham, SE9
1966
Robert Graves
(1895-1985)
Writer 1 Lauriston Road
Wimbledon, SW19
1995

[edit] H

Person Notability Address Year Issued
George Frideric Handel
(1685-1759)
Musician 25 Brook Street
Westminster, W1
1952
John Harrison
(1693-1776)
Inventor of the marine chronometer Summit House, Red Lion Square
Camden, WC1
1954
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins
(Althony Hope)
(1863-1933)
Novelist 41 Bedford Square
Camden, WC1
1976
Jimi Hendrix
(1942-1970)
Guitarist and songwriter 23 Brook Street
Mayfair, W1
1997
Thomas Hodgkin
(1798-1866)
Physician, reformer and philanthropist 35 Bedford Square
Camden, WC1
1985

[edit] J

Person Notability Address Year Issued
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
(1859-1935)
Admiral of the Fleet 25 Draycott Place
Kensington and Chelsea, SW3
1975

[edit] K

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Boris Karloff
(alias for William Henry Pratt)
(1887-1969)
Actor 36 Forest Hill Road
East Dulwich, Southwark, SE23
1998
Sir Alexander Korda
(1893-1956)
Film producer 21 Grosvenor Street
Westminster, W1
2002
Prince Peter Kropotkin
(1842-1921)
Theorist of Anarchism 6 Crescent Road
Bromley
1989

[edit] L

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Lillie Langtry
(1852-1929)
Actress Cadogan Hotel, 21 Pont Street
Kensington and Chelsea, SW1
1980
Charles Laughton
(1899-1962)
Actor 15 Percy Street
Camden, W1
1992
T. E. Lawrence
(1888-1935)
"Lawrence of Arabia" 14 Barton Street
Westminster, SW1
1966
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens
(1869-1944)
Architect 13 Mansfield Street
Westminster, W1
(joint plaque with John Loughborough Pearson)
1962

[edit] M

Person Notability Address Year Issued
John Masefield
(1878-1967)
Poet Laureate 30 Maida Avenue
Westminster, W2
2002
Karl Marx
(1818-1883)
Philosopher 28 Dean Street
Westminster, W1
1967
James Clerk Maxwell
(1831-1879)
Physicist 16 Palace Gardens Terrace
Kensington and Chelsea, W8
1923
Herman Melville
(1819-1891)
Author of Moby-Dick 25 Craven Street
Westminster, WC2
2005
George Meredith
(1828-1909)
Poet and novelist 7 Hobury Street
Kensington and Chelsea, SW10
1976
John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
Philosopher 18 Kensington Square
Kensington and Chelsea , W8
1907
Sir John Everett Millais
(1829-1896)
Painter 2 Palace Gate
Kensington and Chelsea, W8
1926
A. A. Milne
(1882-1956)
Author 13 Mallord Street
Kensington and Chelsea, SW3
1979
Nancy Mitford
(1904-1973)
Writer Heywood Hill's bookshop, 10 Curzon Street
Mayfair, Westminster, W1
1999
Field Marshal Montgomery, Viscount of Alamein
(1887-1976)
Field Marshal Oval House, 52-54 Kennington Oval
Lambeth, SE11
1987
Henry Moore
(1898-1986)
Sculptor 11a Parkhill Road
Hampstead, Camden, NW3
2004
Lady Ottoline Morrell
(1873-1938)
Literary hostess and patron of the arts 10 Gower Street
Westminster, WC1
1984
Samuel F. B. Morse
(1791-1872)
American painter and inventor of the Morse code 141 Cleveland Street
Westminster, W1
1962
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
(1900-1979)
Last Viceroy of India 2 Wilton Crescent
Westminster, SW1
2000
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
Composer 180 Ebury Street
Westminster, SW1
1939
Alexander Muirhead
(1807-1889)
Electrical engineer 20 Church Road
Shortlands, Bromley, BR2
1981
Hugh Hector Munro, alias Saki
(1870-1916)
Short story writer 97 Mortimer Street
Westminster, W1
2003

[edit] N

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Harold Nicolson
(1886-1968)
Writer and gardener 182 Ebury Street
Belgravia, Westminster, SW1
(joint plaque with Vita Sackville-West)
1993

[edit] P

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Francis Turner Palgrave
(1824-1897)
Compiler of The Golden Treasury 5 York Gate
Regent's Park, Westminster, NW1
1976
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
(1784-1865)
Statesman 4 Carlton Gardens
Westminster, SW1
1925
Dame Christabel Pankhurst
(1880-1958)
Campaigner for women's suffrage 50 Clarendon Road
Holland Park, Kensington and Chelsea, W11
(joint plaque with Emmeline Pankhurst)
2006
Emmeline Pankhurst
(1858-1928)
Campaigner for women's suffrage 50 Clarendon Road
Holland Park, Kensington and Chelsea, W11
(joint plaque with Dame Christabel Pankhurst)
2006
Sylvia Pankhurst
(1882-1960)
Campaigner for women's rights 120 Cheyne Walk
Kensington and Chelsea, SW10
1985
Mervyn Peake
(1911-1968)
Writer 1 Drayton Gardens
Kensington and Chelsea, SW10
1996
John Loughborough Pearson
(1817-1897)
Architect 13 Mansfield Street
Westminster, W1
(joint plaque with Edwin Lutyens)
1962
Sir Robert Peel
(1750-1830)
Manufacturer and reformer 16 Upper Grosvenor Street
Westminster, W1
1988
Henry Pelham
(c. 1695-1754)
Prime Minister 22 Arlington Street
Westminster, SW1
1995
Samuel Pepys
(1633-1703)
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty 12 Buckingham Street
Westminster, WC1
1908
Spencer Perceval
(1762-1812)
Prime Minister 59-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields
Camden, WC2
1914
Frank Pick
(1878-1941)
Pioneer of good design for London Transport 15 Wildwood Road
Barnet, NW11
1981
William Pitt the Younger
(1759-1806)
Prime Minister 120 Baker Street
Westminster, W1
1949
Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
(1827-1900)
Anthropologist and archaeologist 4 Grosvenor Gardens
Westminster, SW1
1983
Sylvia Plath
(1932-1963)
Poet 3 Chalcot Square
Primrose Hill, Camden, NW1
2000
Sir Nigel Playfair
(1874-1934)
Actor-manager 26 Pelham Crescent
Kensington and Chelsea, SW7
1965
Alexander Pope
(1688-1744)
Poet Mawson Arms PH, 110 Chiswick Lane South
Chiswick, Hounslow, W4
1996
Ezra Pound
(1885-1972)
Poet 10 Kensington Church Walk
Kensington and Chelsea, W8
2004
J. B. Priestley
(1894-1984)
Novelist, playwright and essayist 3 The Grove, Highgate, Camden, N6 1994
Joseph Priestley
(1733-1804)
Scientist, philosopher, and theologian Ram Place, E9 1985

[edit] R

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Lord FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan
(1788-1855)
Commander during the Crimean War 5 Stanhope Gate
Hyde Park, Westminster, W1
1911
Eleanor Rathbone
(1872-1946)
Pioneer of family allowances Tufton Court, Tufton Street
Westminster, SW1
1986
Eric Ravilious
(1903-1942)
Artist 48 Upper Mall, Hammersmith
Hammersmith and Fulham, W6
1991
Sir Terence Rattigan
(1911-1977)
Playwright 100 Cornwall Gardens
Kensington and Chelsea, SW7
2005
Lord Reith
(1889-1971)
First director-general of the BBC 6 Barton Street
Westminster, SW1
1994
Sir Harry Ricardo
(1885-1974)
Mechanical engineer 13 Bedford Square
Westminster, WC1
2005
Ram Mohan Roy
(1772-1833)
Indian scholar and reformer 49 Bedford Square
Camden, WC1
1985

[edit] S

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Vita Sackville-West
(1892-1962)
Writer and gardener 182 Ebury Street
Belgravia, Westminster, SW1
(joint plaque with Harold Nicolson)
1993
Siegfried Sassoon
(1886-1967)
Writer 23 Campden Hill Square
Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea, W8
1996
George Seferis
(1900-1971)
Greek ambassador, poet, and Nobel laureate 51 Upper Brook Street
Westminster, W1
2000
Robert Smirke
(1781-1867)
Architect 81 Charlotte Street, London

[edit] T

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Alan Turing
(1912-1954)
Code-breaker and pioneer of computer science 2 Warrington Crescent
Maida Vale, Westminster, W9
1998

[edit] W

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Thomas Wakley
(1795-1862)
Reformer and founder of The Lancet 35 Bedford Square
Camden, WC1
1962
H. G. Wells
(1866-1946)
Writer 13 Hanover Terrace
Westminster, NW1
1966
Sir Richard Westmacott
(1775-1856)
Sculptor 14 South Audley Street
Westminster, W1
1955
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
Wit and dramatist 34 Tite Street
Kensington and Chelsea, SW3
1954
Sir Christopher Wren
(1632-1723)
Architect The Old Court House, Hampton Court Green
East Molesey, Richmond Upon Thames
1996

[edit] Y

Person Notability Address Year Issued
William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939)
Irish poet and dramatist 23 Fitzroy Road
Camden, NW1
1957
Thomas Young
(1773-1829)
Man of science 48 Welbeck Street
Westminster, W1
1951

[edit] Z

Person Notability Address Year Issued
Israel Zangwill
(1864-1926)
Writer and philanthropist 288 Old Ford Road
Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, E2
1965
Johann Zoffany
(1733-1810)
Painter 65 Strand-on-the-Green
Chiswick, Hounslow, W4
1973
Émile Zola
(1840-1902)
French novelist Queen's Hotel, 122 Church Road
Upper Norwood, Croydon, SE19
1990

[edit] Organisations, places, or events

Organisation, place, or event Description Address Reference
The County Hall The home of London Government from 1922 to 1986 (LCC 1889-1965, GLC 1965-1986). Main Entrance, County Hall
Lambeth, SE1
[1]
Royal Society of Arts The origin of the blue plaque 8 John Adam Street
London, WC2
[3]
Television The world's, first regular, high definition, television service, was inaugurated, here by the B.B.C., 2 November, 1936 Alexandra Palace
Wood Green, Haringey, N22
[1]
Tyburn Tree Site of Tyburn Tree. Traffic Island at the junction of Edgware Road and Bayswater Road, W2 [1]

[edit] Other similar plaques

Other plaques issued by municipal authorities, societies, companies, or private individuals that emulate the style and function of the plaques issued by English Heritage and its predecessors.

[edit] People

Person Notability Address Issued by (colour)
Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Mathematician, astronomer and computer pioneer 1a Dorset Street, W1 Westminster City Council[4]
Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Mathematician, astronomer and computer pioneer Corner of Larcom Street and Walworth Road, SE17 Southwark Council[5]
John Logie Baird (1888-1946) 132-5 Long Acre, WC2 The Royal Television Society
Harry Beck (1903–1974) Creator of the schematic Tube map Finchley Central tube station, N3 London Regional Transport (grey)
Jack Kid Berg (1909-1991) Boxer Noble Court, Cable Street, E1 Stepney Historical Society (blue)
Hannah Billig (1901-1987) Physician 198 Cable Street, E1 London Borough of Tower Hamlets[6]
Enid Blyton (1897-1968) Writer 83 Shortlands Road, Shortlands, BR2 London Borough of Bromley (blue)[7]
Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby Private secretary to Winston Churchill 1 Eaton Square, SW1 Private[8]
Harold Bride Wireless olperator aboard the RMS Titanic 58 Ravensbourne Avenue, Shortlands, Bromley London Borough of Bromley (blue)[9]
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) Writer Grand Hotel, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Unknown
Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948) Bonchester, Bonchester Close, Off Camden Park Road, Chislehurst London Borough of Bromley (blue)[10]
J. A. Chatwin (1830-1907) Architect Lloyds Bank, Queen Square, Wolverhampton Wolverhampton Civic Society/Lloyds Bank[11]
Alvin Langdon Coburn Pioneering photographer Ffordd Isaf, Harlech, North Wales Royal Photographic Society/Olympus Corporation (blue/octagonal)
William Sands Cox Surgeon House of Fraser store, Temple Row, Birmingham City of Birmingham (blue)
Thomas Crapper (1837-1910) Plumber and engineer 12 Thornsett Road, Bromley London Borough of Bromley (blue)[12]
Richmal Crompton (1890-1969) Author 'The Glebe', Oakley Road, Bromley Common, BR2 London Borough of Bromley (green)[13]
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) Writer 14 Thornsett Road, Anerley, SE20 London Borough of Bromley (blue)[14]
Bernard Delfont (as Baron Delfont) Impresario Prince of Wales Theatre, Coventry Street, SW1 Comic Heritage[15]
Grantly Dick-Read (1890-1959) Obstetrician 25 Harley Street, W1 Westminster City Council/National Childbirth Trust (green)[16]
Robert William Dale (1829-1895) Nonconformist church leader Carrs Lane Church, Birmingham Birmingham Civic Society (blue)[17]
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Writer 2 Upper Wimpole Street, W1 Westminster City Council/The Arthur Conan Doyle Society (green)[18]
Geraint Evans (1922-1992) Opera singer 34 Birchwood Road, Petts Wood, BR5 London Borough of Bromley (blue)[19]
Humphrey Gainsborough Non-conformist minister, engineer and inventor Christ Church United Reformed Church, Reading Road, Henley-on-Thames Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board/Oxford Civic Society (blue)[20]
Sampson Gamgee Surgeon Repertory Theatre, Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham Birmingham Civic Society (blue)[21]
Tony Hancock Actor and comedian 10 Grey Close, NW11 The Dead Comics Society (blue)[22]
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889) Sculptor and artist 'Fossil Villa', 22 Belvedere Road, Anerley London Borough of Bromley (black)[23]
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) Poet Manresa House, Roehampton Greater London Council (blue)[24]
William Hutton Historian Waterstones, High Street, Birmingham Birmingham Civic Society (blue)[25]
Sid James Actor Gunnersby Avenue, London The Dead Comics Society
Samuel Johnson & Joshua Reynolds Founders of The Club 9 Gerrard Street, W1 Westminster City Council/Honsway C&E Foundation (green)[26]
Charles Keeping (1924-1988) Illustrator 16 Church Road, Shortlands, BR2 London Borough of Bromley (blue)[27]
John F. Kennedy Politician and US President 14 Princes Gate, SW7 Unknown (blue)[28]
Albert Ketèlbey (1875-1959) Composer and musician Birmingham and Midland Institute, Cornwall Street, Birmingham Birmingham Civic Society (blue)[29]
Frederick W. Lanchester Scientist, inventor and engineer Oxford Road, Moseley, Birmingham Unknown (green)[30]
Jessie Matthews Actress, dancer and singer Blue Posts Pub, 22 Berwick Street, W1 Westminster City Council[31]
John le Mesurier Actor Baron's Court, London The Dead Comics Society[32]
Edward Lear Painter, poet and humorist Bowman's Mews, N7 London Brough of Islington[33]
Lloyds Bank (Sampson Lloyd) Origin of bank Dale End, Birmingham City of Birmingham (blue)[34]
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834-1913) Banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist High Elms Estate, Shire Lane, Farnborough, BR6 London Borough of Bromley (blue)[35]
Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) Singer, songwriter and political activist 35 Stanley Avenue, Beckenham, BR3 London Borough of Bromley (blue)[36]
James Joseph Magennis Submariner and Victoria Cross recipient Royal Naval Association building, Great Victoria Street, Belfast Ulster History Circle (blue)[37]
Karl Marx (1818-1883) Philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary 101-8 Maitland Park Road, NW3 Camden Borough Council
Joe Meek (1929-1967) Record producer - The Telstar man, pioneer of sound recording technology, lived, worked and died here. 304 Holloway Road, N19 Unknown (black)[38]
Spike Milligan Comedian Camden Palace, Camden High Street, NW1 Comic Heritage (blue)[39]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Composer 20 Frith Street, W1 Royal Music Association (blue)[40]
James Murray Lexicographer 78 Banbury Road, Oxford Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board/Oxford Civic Society (blue)[41]
Heddle Nash (1895-1961) Opera singer 49 Towncourt Crescent, Petts Wood, Bromley London Borough of Bromley (black)[42]
J. A. R. Newlands (1837–1898) Chemist West Square, London, SE11 Royal Society of Chemistry
Joe Orton (1933-1967) Playwright 25 Noel Road, London, N1 London Borough of Islington (green)
Alexander Parkes Metallurgist and inventor Science Museum, Birmingham Birmingham Civic Society (blue)[43]
William Perkin Chemist Cable Street, E1 Stepney Historical Trust (blue)
Dr Stephen Perse Educator Free School Lane, Cambridge Cambridge Blue Plaque Scheme (blue)[44]
Joseph Priestley Scholar, scientist, theologian and discoverer of oxygen Church of St Michael and St Joseph, New Meeting House Lane, Birmingham Birmingham Civic Society (blue)[45]
Gwen Raverat Artist Darwin College, Cambridge Cambridge Blue Plaque Scheme (blue)[46]
Elizabeth Jesser Reid Slavery abolitionist and founder of Bedford College for Women 48 Bedford Square, WC1 Unknown (green)[47]
Willie Rushton Satirist Mornington Crescent tube station, NW1 Comic Heritage (blue)[48]
Terry Scott (1927-1994) Actor and comedian 32 Tucker Street, Watford Comic Heritage (blue)[49][50]
Peter Sellers Actor and comedian 10 Muswell Hill Road, N6 The Dead Comics Society (blue)[51]
Small Faces and Don Arden 1960's mod group and manager 52-55 Carnaby Street, London Westminster City Council (green)[52]
William Thomas Stead Journalist 5 Smith Square, London Westminster City Council[53]
Joseph Sturge (1793-1859) Quaker, campaigner for peace, extension of the vote and abolition of slavery Eden Croft, Wheeleys Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham Birmingham Civic Society[54]
Harry Relph - "Little Tich" (1867-1928) Music hall comedian The Blacksmith Arms, Cudham, Bromley London Borough of Bromley (blue)[55]
J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892-1973)
Writer Sarehole Mill
Hall Green, Birmingham
Birmingham Civic Society and The Tolkien Society (blue)[56]
J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892-1973)
Writer 1 Duchess Place
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Birmingham Civic Society (blue)[57]
J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892-1973)
Writer 4 Highfield Road
Edgbaston, Birmingham
Birmingham Civic Society and The Tolkien Society (blue)[58]
J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892-1973)
Writer Plough and Harrow, Hagley Road
Edgbaston, Birmingham
The Tolkien Society (blue)[59]
J. R. R. Tolkien
(1892-1973)
Writer 20 Northmoor Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board (blue)[60]
William Turner (1789–1862) Artist 16 St John Street, Oxford Oxford Civic Society[61]
H.G. Wells (1866-1846) - two plaques Writer Chiltern Court, Baker Street, NW1 &
Allders Store, Bromley Market Place, BR1 &
The H.G. Wells Society (scarlet) &
Unknown (blue)[62]
William Willett (1856-1915) Inventor of daylight saving time The Cedars, Camden Park Road, Chislehurst London Borough of Bromley (blue)[63]
Kenneth Williams Comedy actor Marlborough House, Osnaburgh Street, NW1 The Dead Comics Society (blue)[64]
Ted Willis, Baron Willis (1918-1992) Playwright 5 Shepherds Green, Chislehurst, BR7 London Borough of Bromley (blue)[65]

[edit] Places, organisations or other

Clink Blue Plaque.

The Clink (Prison), Clink Street, London, Issued by London Borough of Southwark.(Blue)

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e English Heritage website.
  2. ^ Birmingham: Blue Plaques Photograph Gallery: George Elkington
  3. ^ BluePlaque.com.
  4. ^ BluePlaque.com: About This Plaque
  5. ^ BluePlaque.com: About This Plaque
  6. ^ BluePlaque.com: About This Plaque
  7. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Enid Blyton (1897-1968)
  8. ^ BluePlaque.com: About This Plaque
  9. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Harold Bride (1890-1956)
  10. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948)
  11. ^ City Centre Blue Plaques
  12. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Thomas Crapper (1837-1910)
  13. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Richmal Crompton (1890-1969)
  14. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
  15. ^ London remembers
  16. ^ London remembers
  17. ^ The Birmingham Civic Society
  18. ^ London remembers
  19. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Sir Geraint Evans (1922-1992)
  20. ^ Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board
  21. ^ The Birmingham Civic Society
  22. ^ London remembers
  23. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889)
  24. ^ Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
  25. ^ The Birmingham Civic Society
  26. ^ London remembers
  27. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Charles Keeping (1924-1988)
  28. ^ London remembers
  29. ^ The Birmingham Civic Society
  30. ^ Birmingham: Blue Plaques Photograph Gallery
  31. ^ London remembers
  32. ^ Welcome to Carry On Line - home of the Carry On films
  33. ^ BluePlaque.com: About This Plaque
  34. ^ The Birmingham Civic Society
  35. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Sir John Lubbock, the First Lord Avebury (1834-1913)
  36. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Ewan MacColl (1915-1989)
  37. ^ James Joseph MagennisVC - Submariner
  38. ^ Joe Meek lived, worked and died here
  39. ^ London remembers
  40. ^ London remembers
  41. ^ Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board
  42. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Heddle Nash (1895-1961)
  43. ^ The Birmingham Civic Society
  44. ^ http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/ccm/content/policy-and-projects/blue-plaque-scheme.en
  45. ^ The Birmingham Civic Society
  46. ^ http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/ccm/content/policy-and-projects/blue-plaque-scheme.en
  47. ^ London remembers
  48. ^ BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Mornington Crescent honours Rushton
  49. ^ The Heritage Foundation
  50. ^ Great Scott! : News 2003 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
  51. ^ London remembers:
  52. ^ Westminster honours Small Faces and Don Arden with Green Plaque
  53. ^ City of Westminster
  54. ^ icBirmingham - Abolition of slavery is remembered in Birmingham
  55. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Little Tich (Harry Relph) (1867-1928)
  56. ^ Birmingham: Blue Plaques Photograph Gallery: Sarehole Mill
  57. ^ Birmingham: Blue Plaques Photograph Gallery: Duchess Place
  58. ^ Birmingham: Blue Plaques Photograph Gallery: 4 Highfield Road
  59. ^ Birmingham: Blue Plaques Photograph Gallery: Plough and Harrow
  60. ^ http://64.6.241.183/blue/jtolkien.html
  61. ^ http://www.oxfordcivicsoc.org.uk/blueplaques/index.htm
  62. ^ The Time Machine Project-Bromley, Kent
  63. ^ London Borough of Bromley | William Willett (1856-1915)
  64. ^ London remembers:
  65. ^ London Borough of Bromley | Lord Ted Willis (1918-1992)