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The blue plaque organised by the Nubian Jak Community Trust in partnership with the Mayor of London erected in 2006 to commemorate the flat at 34 Ridgmount Gardens in London, where reggae icon Bob Marley lived in 1972. [6] [7] The original blue plaque scheme was established by the Society of Arts in 1867, and since 1986 has been run by English ...
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 ...
With the abolition of the GLC in 1986, administration of the official London-wide blue plaque scheme passed to English Heritage. [1] During the first 150 years of the scheme's operation, it was estimated that just over 100 houses bearing plaques had been demolished [2] [3] including 12 destroyed in the 1939-1945 war. [4]
Born Archie Leach in 1904, he became a movie star after escaping a poverty-stricken childhood.
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 of London. The scheme includes a small number of plaques that were erected privately and subsequently absorbed. The scheme began in 1866. [1]
English Heritage commemorative plaques conference, 2010. English Heritage began administering the London blue plaque scheme in 1986. A national register of historic parks and gardens, (e.g. Rangers House, Greenwich) was set up in 1984, [10] and a register for historic battlefields (e.g. the Battle of Tewkesbury) was created in March 1995. [11 ...
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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 scheme in 1965 from its predecessor. Since the abolition of the GLC in 1986, the blue plaque scheme has been administered by English Heritage.