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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]
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A Gateshead Blue Plaque in commemoration of Wailes was installed in 2005. [24] The mansion was protected in 1973 as a Grade II listed building, [22] along with the two storey, sandstone belvedere walls which surround the west and south of the mansion. These are replete with stairs and corner battlements and the entire walls are conjoined by a ...
The blue plaques are publicly visible, and are intended to give everyone an insight into chemistry's relevance to everyday lives. [1] CLS plaques for the first few years of the scheme (begun in 2001) were rectangular, black lettering on a steel background, but later plaques are hexagonal, white lettering on a blue background.
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 ...
Blue plaque commemorates Swan's invention of the electric light bulb, and Underhill as the first house in the world to be wired for domestic electric lighting. Underhill is a large and imposing detached house, located at 99 Kells Lane in the Low Fell district of Gateshead , [ 1 ] north-east England, United Kingdom .