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English Heritage

Categories: Architecture, History, Property

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts, and country houses.

What is now generally known as the blue plaque scheme was initiated in 1866 by the Society of Arts.  In 1901 it was taken over by the LCC and then in 1965 by its successor body, the GLC. When that was abolished in 1986 English Heritage took on the scheme. 

Over the years hundreds of plaques have been erected and sadly some of these have been lost, often when their host buildings have been demolished.  Steve Roffey has given himself the task of identifying these lost plaques and listing them on Wikipedia.  Documenting existing plaques is a big enough task but finding the lost ones - that's far more difficult - for obvious reasons. Chapeau.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
English Heritage

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Approved extension

A misunderstanding? A joke? Do the owners now claim they have an English Heri...

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Croydon Palace

Croydon Palace A former residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury (The Great...

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Isokon Building

The plaque is in the foyer of the flats. It was unveiled by John Pritchard, g...

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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Abram Games

Abram Games, 1914 - 1996, poster artist and designer, lived and worked here, ...

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Ada Lovelace

English Heritage Ada Countess of Lovelace, 1815 - 1852, pioneer of computing...

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Agatha Christie - W8

Dame Agatha Christie, 1850 - 1976, detective novelist and playwright, lived h...

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Agnes Arber

Agnes Arber, neé Robertson, 1879 - 1960, botanist, lived here 1890 - 1909. En...

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Air Chief Marshal Dowding - SW19 - original plaque

This plaque was removed when the house on which it was erected was demolished...

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Other Subjects

Kenneth Wood

Kenneth Wood

Architect active in 1902.

Person, Architecture

1 memorial
L. A. M. Biel and Partners

L. A. M. Biel and Partners

Architects active in 1965.

Group, Architecture

1 memorial
Create London

Create London

From their website: Create London commissions art and architecture in the public realm. Create works with local communities in cities to commission art and architecture that is ambitious, purposefu...

Group, Architecture, Art

2 memorials
Carden, Godfrey and Macfadyen

Carden, Godfrey and Macfadyen

Architects. The website of the London-based firm Carden and Godfrey gives "Carden & Godfrey Architects was established in 1946, with projects centred on post-war reconstruction, and we continue...

Group, Architecture

1 memorial
Louis de Soissons

Louis de Soissons

Louis de Soissons.

Person, Architecture

2 memorials

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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Prime Minister 1940 - 45 and 1951 - 55. Born Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, Oxford, into an aristocratic family. His father was the son of the Duke of Marlborough, and his mother was born in Broo...

Person, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Seriously Famous

30 memorials
Leslie Sydney Marler

Leslie Sydney Marler

High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire 1971-72. Chairman of Marler Estates plc. Andrew Behan has kindly researched this man: Major Leslie Sydney Marler, O.B.E., T.D. was born on 7 July 1900 in Northwood...

Person, Commerce

1 memorial
Bedford Charity

Bedford Charity

Created by a gift of land by Sir William Harpur to the corporation of Bedford. A merchant from Bedford he had come to London and done so well that he was Lord Mayor in 1561. The following year he p...

Group, Education

1 memorial
Women Pharmacists

Women Pharmacists

WC1, Great Russell Street, 72/73

Inscribed into the building, just below the cornice on the two facades: "The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain Incorporated 1843". ...

1 subject commemorated
Football Association

Football Association

Formed on the proposal of Ebenezer Cobb Morley at the Freemasons' Tavern.  Our picture shows an early book of minutes and the picture source gives some history. 2015: Londonist posted a 1935 news ...

Group, Sport / Games

2 memorials