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This is a complete list of the 192 blue plaques placed by English Heritage and its predecessors in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. At inception in 1876 the scheme was originally administered by the Royal Society of Arts, being taken over by the London County Council (LCC) in 1901. The Greater London Council (GLC) took over the ...
Edvard Benes blue plaque, 26 Gwendolen Avenue, Putney 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 ...
And now you can see the exact location of all 933 of these distinctive discs and when they appeared, thanks to Esri UK’s interactive map. Set up in 1866, the English Heritage blue plaque scheme ...
Now run by English Heritage, the London blue plaques scheme was started in 1866 and is thought to be the oldest of its kind in the world. More than 1,000 plaques across the capital, on buildings humble and grand, honour the notable women and men who have lived or worked in them. Discover some of the people commemorated with blue plaques, or ...
A Blue Plaque marks the site at which the Cato Street Conspiracy was discovered in 1820. David Azia for The New York Times. But in other ways, the plaque program is bending to the times. This year ...
Apr 20, 2016 · Blue plaques for Cetshwayo and Holman Hunt in Holland Park, London. Cetshwayo stayed at the house in the summer 1882, during which time he met the Prime Minister, William Gladstone, and Queen Victoria, before returning to South Africa in the vain hope of recovering his kingdom. Holman Hunt – despite being first to be commemorated – moved in ...
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8. The City of London has only one ‘blue plaque’. …and it isn’t blue. The terracotta plaque, commemorating Dr Samuel Johnson, was put up in 1876 by the Society of Arts, which started the scheme. It can be seen in Gough Square, just north of Fleet Street, on the outskirts of the financial district of the City of London.
