A few years back when at the Imperial War Museum, I noticed that one of the houses across the road had a blue plaque for Captain Bligh.
Captain Cook has a memorial tablet of slate erected in 1970 on the site of his house in Mile End Road with an inscription commemorating the bicentenary of his landing at Botany Bay, New South Wales. Always surprised that there is no plaque for him at Greenwich as he lived at the Royal Naval College for a while.
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.
No, they are also issued when people lived there or even worked there (for an appreciable amount of time)....the house doesn't have to have been demolished or the person born there....indeed most of them are on buildings that are still standing.........well as far as I know.
For example, Ho Chi Minh worked as a pastry cook at The Carlton Hotel which stood at the corner of The Haymarket and Pall Mall....I believe it's a sports bar now(might be wrong there) anyway there's a blue plaque stating this on the building.
[cite]Posted By: pilchard[/cite]Is there one for David Bowie in Stansfield Road Brixton? Obviously he's not dead.
Funny you ask that, he was one I was specifically researching as part of my Blue Plaque research. Only one council (as far as i'm aware) give Blue Plaques it to living people, and that's Southwark. So Bowie doesn't have one. However, if he did, it would probably be on his childhood home in Plaistow Grove in Bromley - where he spent his formative years.
Or on the mansion in Chislehurst where Michael Jackson 'almost' stayed during his season at The O2!!
Something along the lines of...Michael Jackson 'almost stayed here'...etc etc.
Is there one for David Bowie in Stansfield Road Brixton? Obviously he's not dead.
Funny you ask that, he was one I was specifically researching as part of my Blue Plaque research. Only one council (as far as i'm aware) give Blue Plaques it to living people, and that's Southwark. So Bowie doesn't have one. However, if he did, it would probably be on his childhood home in Plaistow Grove in Bromley - where he spent his formative years.>
There is a Blue Plaque for Bowie on the wall of the Three Tuns pub in Beckenham High Street
There's a blue plaque on the new flats built on the site of the Welcome Inn public house. It says something about the first gig by Status Quo on that site, can't remember date.
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Captain Cook has a memorial tablet of slate erected in 1970 on the site of his house in Mile End Road with an inscription commemorating the bicentenary of his landing at Botany Bay, New South Wales. Always surprised that there is no plaque for him at Greenwich as he lived at the Royal Naval College for a while.
Need to find actual address via trip to Bromley Library.
"Not alot of people know that............."
Boris Karloff
No, they are also issued when people lived there or even worked there (for an appreciable amount of time)....the house doesn't have to have been demolished or the person born there....indeed most of them are on buildings that are still standing.........well as far as I know.
For example, Ho Chi Minh worked as a pastry cook at The Carlton Hotel which stood at the corner of The Haymarket and Pall Mall....I believe it's a sports bar now(might be wrong there) anyway there's a blue plaque stating this on the building.
Funny you ask that, he was one I was specifically researching as part of my Blue Plaque research. Only one council (as far as i'm aware) give Blue Plaques it to living people, and that's Southwark. So Bowie doesn't have one. However, if he did, it would probably be on his childhood home in Plaistow Grove in Bromley - where he spent his formative years.
Something along the lines of...Michael Jackson 'almost stayed here'...etc etc.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9450675/Cull-of-Blue-Plaques-means-dozens-of-famous-names-are-dropped.html
Think its a shame there are less and less of these.
There is a Blue Plaque for Bowie on the wall of the Three Tuns pub in Beckenham High Street