Noticed acouple recently, Any new ones around South East London ?
I think to have one placed on a building the person concerned must have been dead for at least 20 years.
HG Wells' plaque might be a LB Bromley plaque rather than an English Heritage plaque- if you mean the one that was outside the old Allders store on the High Street.
[cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]HG Wells' plaque might be a LB Bromley plaque rather than an English Heritage plaque- if you mean the one that was outside the old Allders store on the High Street.
[cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]I don't know about new, but HG Wells in Bromley, Pyotr Kropotkin (also Bromley), WG Grace - Mottingham, and CB Fry - Croydon have blue plaques.
And yep you have to have been dead for 20 years.
What about the detective guy in Baker St.? He didnt even live but they gave him one.
[cite]Posted By: Miserableold-ish git[/cite]Good idea (Sir) Henry.
Now, if we can just find someone on the Board (or even an ex-member) to start this campaign............
;-)
I did some research on Blue Plaques recently for work. There are several different organisations that grant them - most local councils, but some just dedicated to a specific field (academic or otherwise). All have slightly different criteria. Most have the 'dead for a decade' or two decades rule, but some grant them to living people too (like Southwark Council, who put one on Rio Ferdinand's childhood home!).
The main and most revered one is the English Heritage scheme.
There's one on Charlton Church Lane to Italo Svevo, an Italian author, who lived there until the 1920s. He wrote a lot about his impressions of life in the area, can't remember for sure if he mentioned CAFC though (most of his time was before The Valley opened).
General Gordon was born in Woolwich, his house on Woolwich Common Road had a Blue Plaque and in 1970 it was announced the house was to be demoliished so we went armed with a crowbar to rescue it. We couldn't budge it so we took the letter box and door knocker instead...
Thought Henry Irving was alive and kicking on this site but found a blue plaque Henry Irving 1838-1905 lived here 15a Grafton Street W1 1905 now who was born then ............................
One of the most recent plaques to be unveiled was in Southwark at the birthplace of one Edward Turner. He was the driving force behind Triumph Motorcycles Ltd. in their glory years of the '30s to the '70s. He rose through the ranks to become Chairman/Chief Exec. But when he retired things started falling apart, a bit like us and Jimmy Seed! The plaque is in Philip Walk, Camberwell.
He has a house/museum dedicated to him, I thought the plaque thing was to remember people who once lived in a house or were born on the site of a house that has since been demolished.
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And yep you have to have been dead for 20 years.
http://www.bromley.gov.uk/environment/conservation_urban_design/blueplaques/
Theres flipping millions of pages !!
No HG Wells and doesn't Lord Kinnaird have one too.
And Jimmy Seed should have one. I can feel a campaign coming on.
Try this MOG
It should be.
Could be.
pauline
Different Foundation I think
Should be one like this on the Thames Barrier/Lads of the Village pub (in red of course)
What about the detective guy in Baker St.? He didnt even live but they gave him one.
Now, if we can just find someone on the Board (or even an ex-member) to start this campaign............
;-)
Peter Varney?
The main and most revered one is the English Heritage scheme.
3 that I found with a quick google search were:
Bob Hope - Craigton Road
Richard Jefferies - Footscray Road
Herbert Morrison - Archery Road
Think we should start a campaign up for Louise Nurding/Redknapp who is Eltham born and bred and was educated at Christ Church on Shooters Hill!!!
Henry Irving 1838-1905 lived here 15a Grafton Street W1
1905 now who was born then ............................
Charlton Athletic...................
There is also one in Upper Norwood for Camille Pissaro.
Maybe Sherlock was a Nigel.
Never. ACD lived there before Palace existed.
He did play football when young and living in Portsmouth but not for Pompey as often reported.
Also played cricket for the MCC and once bowled out WG Grace.
He has a house/museum dedicated to him, I thought the plaque thing was to remember people who once lived in a house or were born on the site of a house that has since been demolished.