A charity with: "The key objective of the British Plaque Trust (BPT) is to resurrect this national scheme {of English Heritage} which commemorates the lives and successes of notable figures by recognising the buildings and places which they inhabited."
2025: The organisation have moved to a new website.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
British Plaque Trust
David Bowie, 1947 - 2016. His albums Hunky Dory and The Rise & Fall of Zi...
Emile Ford 1937 - 2016 Singer, producer & sound scientist. He made his pe...
In 1899 at 126 Piccadilly Francis Barraud completed his famous painting of 'N...
Haroon Shamsher 1965 - 1999 founder of influential music collective Joi lived...
{Beneath an image of the orphanage:} On this site, from 1866 - 1961, stood th...
Cricketer. Born in Hastings, Sussex. He played for Sussex, the M.C.C. and Middlesex. After retiring as a player, he achieved fame as a writer and historian on cricket. Died in Pimlico.
Dedicated to preserving the history of the Crystal Palace.
From their website: "The Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation is a non-profit, volunteer organization. The purpose of the Society is to identify and recognize sites of American Jewish ...
Firemen Remembered is an independent charity dedicated to recording and remembering firemen and firewomen who served in the London Region in WW2 and commemorating those who died. See also the Fire...
Tenuously connected to Benedict Arnold. From NBC: "An amateur historian, Arnold thoroughly researched his family lineage and discovered a link to the general - although his own branch of the Arnol...
Ordinances 1365, Grant of Arms 1588. The Plumbers' Hall used to stand in Chequer Yard, where Cannon Street station now stands. The first hall was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Rebuilt, it co...
French sculptor who spent most of his working life in England working for the court of Charles I.
The first general post office in London opened in 1643, after King Charles I legalised use of the royal posts for private correspondence. It was possibly located on Cloak Lane near Dowgate Hill, in...
Born in Liverpool. Liberal Prime Minister four times. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition. Queen Victoria moaned that "He speaks to me as if I were a public meeting". Caroline's Misce...
Person, Jack the Ripper suspects, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous
Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone. On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...
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