Reply With QuoteRobert Llewellyn has one in Northampton
http://www.northampton-news-hp.co.uk...ail/story.html
Brighty
When I used to get around town a lot I often used to get a kick out of spotting blue plaques. I recall Enid Blyton in Lordship Lane and around the road in Forest Hill road - Boris Karloff!
Also around the back streets of Brixton I was surprised to see Van Gogh! Further up the road in Kennington - Field Marshal Montgomery.
The Charlie Chaplin plaque I've seen is in slate near Waterloo bridge.
Coincidentally the road I was born in, Tennison road, London SE25 was also home to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (not at the same time!) which also had a plaque up.
London is full of them.
Anyone seen any notable ones of interest?
Anyone live in a house with a plaque?
Cheers,
Neil.
Robert Llewellyn has one in Northampton
http://www.northampton-news-hp.co.uk...ail/story.html
Brighty
Speaking of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
^^
LOL!
In Walthamstow East 17 no doubt.
Cheers,
Neil.
I think it was done for a gag.Originally Posted by Brighty
The English Heritage ones require you to be dead I believe.
Cheers,
Neil.
One in Minehead...
Jacob von Hogflume, inventor of time travel. Golden square, Soho.
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I drive past this one quite often
Its in Sonning, which when you consider the number of celebrities living there(Clooney, Geller, May, Page etc) will presumably be awash with them in the future
I believe that Eric Blair (George Orwell) often stayed in the next village to mine (Twyford) in the 40's and 50's - no blue plaque though.
As for my own village, Ruscombe, I guess that the house lived in by the founder of the US sate of Pennsylvania is long gone so there is nothing to attach a plaque to. He does however have on in Sussex attached to a Quaker meeting house he established in the late 1600's
Dennis Price was also born here but no plaque for him either
My previous house was just around the corner from this.
Cheers,
Gary
I think I pass George Orwell's blue plaque when I go to Portobello Road market from Notting Hill underground station.I drive past this one quite often
Its in Sonning, which when you consider the number of celebrities living there(Clooney, Geller, May, Page etc) will presumably be awash with them in the future
I believe that Eric Blair (George Orwell) often stayed in the next village to mine (Twyford) in the 40's and 50's - no blue plaque though.
The only blue plaque I've made an effort to see was this one in Eaton Square London, as I'm a huge fan.
I suspect the nearest one to me is this one in honour of the singer from Boney M. Not one of the official English Heritage ones, obviously.
Used to work around the corner from a house with a blue plaque for Charlie Chaplin on it. One of several in south London, I recall.
I've attended a few meetings at Sir Edward Grey's former house in Westminster, which was a meeting venue but has, I think, now been demolished behind the facade and is being rebuilt.
This ones on the back of my house
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This one probably hasn't been seen by too many members of the public, within Hyde Park PO.
And a couple more:
Wahey!!! A proper one at last! Where did you get that from?
There's one for Sid James in a street heading towards Ealing Common.
Brilliant, had to read it twice...
Thought you would appreciate this one my friend, a place in Leicester called the metal foundry
Cheers... found it!Thought you would appreciate this one my friend, a place in Leicester called the metal foundry
Gunnersbury Avenue, already mentioned in another thread which gave me the idea for this one.
Cheers,
Neil.
Here's a nice one.
Laurie Cunningham, the first Black footballer to play for England in a competitive match has just got a blue plaque on his old home in London N4.
Cheers,
Neil.
English Heritage have an excellent free app called 'blue plaques of London'. It works via GPS and can show you all the ones close to your location
Happened upon the one for Alfred Wainwright in Blackburn a few years ago.
It's on Audley Range.
There's one round the corner from me in Isleworth on an unprepossessing terraced house on a main road.
I've driven past it many a time and not noticed it but a couple of months back was walking past after having dropped my pushbike off for a service only to find that Vincent Van Gogh lived there for a couple of years whilst he had a teaching job. Funnily enough it's not showing up on the app though
There are lots of people who get their own ones made.
A neighbour has done one for Lucien Pissarro, the son of the painter Camille Pissarro who lived in their house for a short period.
It's all a bit Hyacinth Bucket.
There are loads of them where I grew up in West Kensington
As child a friend of mind lived in Edward Elgar's house complete with blue plaque
A couple of streets down there are 2 opposite each other one for Ghandi and the other for Geoffrey De Havilland, I loved aeroplanes as a kid so thought this was very cool.
On the street I grew up on there is one for the Gossens (no idea who they were) the street behind had Henry Rider Haggard, There is also one for Marcus Garvy on the A4 Talgarth Rd.
I now live in Ealing so close by is a plaque on Ealing studios and as mentioned before one for Sid James.
I remember seeing the Van Gogh plaque in Isleworth for the first time and thinking that's a quite a good claim to fame as far as houses go, especially in Isleworth.
The blue plaque scheme is a great idea imo.
Getting them made up yourself is definitely a bit (lot) like Hyacinth Bouquet.
Camille Pissarro has his own plaque, I've seen it in Crystal Place.
Cheers,
Neil.
I've seen Van Gogh's plaque in Brixton.
It seems these impressionist painters moved around London a lot, probably looking for the cheapest digs or suitable sites for painting.
Cheers,
Neil.
Nice ones.
Kensington is certainly a hotbed of blue plaques.
My favourite is in Brook street, Mayfair....
Cheers,
Neil.
Are green plaques allowed in this thread?
At the entrance to 80 Strand, London.
See CoW Green Plaques Scheme. (Update March 2018: "A full list of Green Plaques will be available shortly.")
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I must pass that one at least twice a week, Handel lived in the same house!
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I thought it was next door but I guess it may have been one house in the past.
Two giants of music in close proximity!
Cheers,
Neil.
You are right it does look next door, I read somewhere it was once the same house.
Either way it's a great bit of history
Another favourite of mine is on Villiers St
"Oooo Mr Grimsdale !!!!!"
Fernhead Road, W9
^^^
That's a good one!
Maida Vale is gentrified now, a one bed flat will set you back half a million but I guess it was a bit of a dump when Norman lived there.
I remember reading his biography many years ago and he had a very hard life before he was famous.
Cheers,
Neil.
A new blue plaque was installed this year to great approbation...
Not before time.
Cheers,
Neil.
What was interesting to see one day on a documentary on tv was that there is just one family run business who makes these in a shed for whatever its called department who comissions these...
Another green one, this time for Herbert Kilpin, is looking for a place on his birthplace in Nottingham:
We have
Hattie Jaques, Reggy Turnill, Charles Dickens, HG Wells (x2) and Samuell pilmpsoll
She lived in Kent as well did she?
I've seen her plaque in Earls Court and I thought she lived there all her adult life.
Cheers,
Neil.
Wiki is your friend: Hattie Jacques Early life: 1922–44, "Jacques was born...at 125 Sandgate High Street, Sandgate, Kent."
Indeed -Wiki is your friend: Hattie Jacques Early life: 1922–44, "Jacques was born...at 125 Sandgate High Street, Sandgate, Kent."
The Sandgate Society, as you mentioned, has put up several plaques: link. Looking for them on the net led me to this useful resource for finding others: Open Plaques.
Apparently when Hendrix moved in he was amused to find another musician had occupied the same building. He wasn't aware of Handel's music but went to the One Stop record shop in South Moulton Street and bought LPs of The Messiah and Water Music.I thought it was next door but I guess it may have been one house in the past.
Two giants of music in close proximity!
I'd forgotten about the Sandgate castle plaque - the Reggy Turnill one is quite recent - I remember delivering to his house in the shuttle era
Ah, born in Kent.Wiki is your friend: Hattie Jacques Early life: 1922–44, "Jacques was born...at 125 Sandgate High Street, Sandgate, Kent."
As I said previously she lived her famous adult life until her death in the same house in Earls Court, thirty five years in fact.
Cheers,
Neil.
Although lots of local societies and locales have chosen to put up plaques in recent years it is perhaps interesting to note that the original English Heritage blue plaques have been going for 150 years.
The length of time really surprised me TBH.
I mentioned Booby Moore earlier but other individuals who have had their own EH blue plaques erected this year are:
Freddie Mercury, Bobby Moore, Sir George Grove, Sir Frederick Ashton, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Elizabeth David, Tommy Cooper, Samuel Beckett, Patrick Blackett, Benjamin Baker.
Cheers,
Neil.
It seems that Comic Heritage (the Heritage Foundation) believe that Hattie Jacques was born in 1924, rather than 1922 as per The Authorised Biography etc.
Gordon Bennett!
That's a bit poor isn't it?
Cheers,
Neil.
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