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Do you have a favourite blue plaque?

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  • Ironic
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    Not quite a blue plaque, but it is true that the former Prime Minister used to shag there:

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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,471
    edited November 2018

    Isn’t there a Ho Chi Min plaque somewhere.......on Whitehall I believe.

    It's outside a pub in Ealing. He used to work there as a kitchen boy.
    There is no record that I can find of an official blue plaque for him in Enfield.
    There may well be an unofficial one on The Drayton Hall Hotel (now a pub),which is in Enfield and where he once worked.
    There is definitely an ‘official’ one on a building on Haymarket, on the site of the old Carlton Hotel where he worked in the kitchens.
    I assume you are aware that there are a number of unofficial plaques (put up all over London to associate individuals with various buildings), as opposed to official ones, they aren’t deemed as genuine blue plaques and should not be seen as such.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,121
    edited November 2018
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  • I love it that a Jimmy Hendrix blue plaque is next door to one of Handel.

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    I went in Jimmy's old flat on the 40th anniversary of his death. They saidhe lived there because if Handel. No idea which story is correct.

    The Dartford Plaque is incorrect. Keith and Mick didn't form the Rolling Stones.

    I live round the corner from where Spike Milligan grew up. There isn't a plaque to commerate it. :angry:

    My favourite one? The DLR which carried the Olympic Torch.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,731

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    6 Crescent Road, Bromley


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    Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (December 9, 1842 – February 8, 1921) was a Russian evolutionary theorist, philosopher, economist, geographer, author and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists. He was a proponent of a decentralised communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations of self-governing communities and worker-run enterprises. He became friends with a number of prominent English-speaking socialists, including William Morris and George Bernard Shaw.



    Used to walk past this one every day.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    edited November 2018
    I was driving past just as Michael Caine was unveiling his next to Surrey Quays swimming pool
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    edited November 2018
    Uboat said:

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    As a big Mazzini fan I thought he'd probably have a plaque in London. The icing on the cake was finding out it was outside the location for 221b Baker Street in Sherlock.

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    Italian patriot giving a plaque for living in London - I wonder if the French give this British patriot one for living in France
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,203
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    Henry Irving Posts: 85,203
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  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Amazing.

    How did they find two walls built with exactly the same bricks?
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,203
    Addickted said:

    Amazing.

    How did they find two walls built with exactly the same bricks?

    In the good old days bricks and walls were standardised, not the sloppy rubbish managed by housing associations we have now.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Agreed - particularly as that wall is a French wall, (the brick bond is a giveaway) which should only really have one blue plaque on it

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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Another request for locations to be mentioned.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,194


    Uboat said:

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    As a big Mazzini fan I thought he'd probably have a plaque in London. The icing on the cake was finding out it was outside the location for 221b Baker Street in Sherlock.

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    Italian patriot giving a plaque for living in London - I wonder if the French give this British patriot one for living in France
    All you have to do is write thousands of pamphlets and articles and lead various revolutions back in your homeland and I'd say it's in the bag.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    edited November 2018
    seth plum said:

    Another request for locations to be mentioned.

    Sorry - Lenin's Plaque is at Tavistock Place.

  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Uboat said:


    Uboat said:

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    As a big Mazzini fan I thought he'd probably have a plaque in London. The icing on the cake was finding out it was outside the location for 221b Baker Street in Sherlock.

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    Italian patriot giving a plaque for living in London - I wonder if the French give this British patriot one for living in France
    All you have to do is write thousands of pamphlets and articles and lead various revolutions back in your homeland and I'd say it's in the bag.
    No problemo
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  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    This one at the bottom of Crooms hill has a connection. After football me and Daniel would get the 53, walk through the park to his house. I had to sit on the doorstep while he had his tea as his mum wouldn't let his mates in.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051


    Uboat said:

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    As a big Mazzini fan I thought he'd probably have a plaque in London. The icing on the cake was finding out it was outside the location for 221b Baker Street in Sherlock.

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    Italian patriot giving a plaque for living in London - I wonder if the French give this British patriot one for living in France
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    McBobbin said:


    Uboat said:

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    As a big Mazzini fan I thought he'd probably have a plaque in London. The icing on the cake was finding out it was outside the location for 221b Baker Street in Sherlock.

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    Italian patriot giving a plaque for living in London - I wonder if the French give this British patriot one for living in France
    Yes, like it
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Is that in Grove Park?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018

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    Both on the same bit of wall. Amazing!
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,179
    Sir Barnes Wallis has a plaque opposite New Cross Bus Garage, Lived their when he worked for Vickers during the war.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    Henry's posts above got me thinking, it might not be a bad idea if there were one or two Charlton related ones about. I'd be very surprised if any of the players/managers would be prominent enough to be considered in footballing terms alone but perhaps some of those with interesting backstories might just squeeze in.

    https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/propose-a-plaque/

    And of course, it wouldn't have to be limited to 'official' English Heritage Ones. I know that in Southend, the supporters club put a plaque on the pub where the club was founded. Perhaps it might make a nice little project for the Trust to work in conjunction with the Museum. Red plaques anyone?

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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Uboat said:

    Stig said:

    Henry's posts above got me thinking, it might not be a bad idea if there were one or two Charlton related ones about. I'd be very surprised if any of the players/managers would be prominent enough to be considered in footballing terms alone but perhaps some of those with interesting backstories might just squeeze in.

    https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/propose-a-plaque/

    And of course, it wouldn't have to be limited to 'official' English Heritage Ones. I know that in Southend, the supporters club put a plaque on the pub where the club was founded. Perhaps it might make a nice little project for the Trust to work in conjunction with the Museum. Red plaques anyone?

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    Like this?:

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    Is that stuck to the back of Katrien?