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A Gateshead blue plaque honouring William Clarke. A long-running blue plaque scheme is in operation in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.Administered by the local council, the scheme was registered with English Heritage in 1970 [1] and 21 blue plaques were installed from the inception of the scheme until 1996. [2]
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]
This scheme placed a serial letter before an existing two-letter code, and had the sequence number run only to 999, thus restricting the number of characters in a registration to six. The first area to issue such marks was Staffordshire in July 1932 with ARF 1 etc., [ 55 ] and all other areas in England and Wales, plus most areas in Scotland ...
Born Archie Leach in 1904, he became a movie star after escaping a poverty-stricken childhood.
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 ...
The first blue plaque to commemorate the life of a child will be unveiled at the house where he died. George Brewster, 11, became trapped in a chimney of a former Victorian pauper asylum in ...
List of blue plaques erected by the Royal Society of Chemistry This page was last edited on 9 November 2019, at 03:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...