Blue Plaque - Examples

Examples

• John Lennon has a blue plaque at his childhood home 251 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool
• A plaque marks where Sir Winston Churchill lived and died at 28 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington Gore, Kensington and Chelsea, SW7
• Michael Faraday lived in Larcom Street, Walworth, commemorated with a plaque
• A plaque for Mahatma Gandhi in 20 Baron's Court Road, Hammersmith and Fulham, W14, marks where he stayed while living in London
• T. E. Lawrence has a blue plaque 14 Barton Street Westminster, SW1 and another at 2 Polstead Road, Oxford, OX2 which was his childhood home.
• A plaque for Keith Moon by The Heritage Foundation is situated at 90 Wardour Street, Soho, London, W1F 0UB, site of the Marquee Club
• Isaac Newton has a plaque where he lived in 87 Jermyn Street, SW1, Westminster
• The childhood home of Charlie Chaplin in 287 Kennington Road, London, SE 11
• Actor Laurence Olivier has a blue plaque marking his birthplace in Wathen Road, Dorking.
• Robert Louis Stevenson has a plaque at Mount Vernon, corner of Holly Place, Hampstead, London NW3
• Charles Darwin was designated a plaque at the Biological Sciences Building, University College, Camden, Gower Street, WC1
• A plaque for Anna and Sigmund Freud can be found on the Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, NW3.
• Charles Dickens has a plaque on the BMA building commemorating his former home Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, London.
• Plaques for George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix stand side by side on 25 and 23 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, W1.
• The fictional character Sherlock Holmes has a blue plaque on the supposed site of 221B Baker Street, London, W1, placed there on behalf of the Sherlock Holmes Museum which now occupies the site.
• H. G. Wells has a plaque at 13 Hanover Terrace, Westminster, NW1
• A plaque for Oscar Wilde marks where he lived in 34 Tite Street, Kensington and Chelsea, SW3
• Vincent Van Gogh lived at 87 Hackford Road, SW9 Lambeth, where a blue plaque was unveiled in 1973
• Marie Kendall the famous music hall star has a plaque at her former and last home at Okeover Manor Clapham Common.
• Bob Marley has a plaque where he first lived in London at Ridgmount Gardens.
• A plaque for Stanley Holloway can be found at 25 Albany Road, Manor Park, Newham E12 the house in which he was born.
• Benjamin Franklin (one of the Founding Fathers of the United States) once owned a property in Preston city centre, on the corner of Cheapside and Friargate. A blue plaque on the wall of the building commemorates the spot.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the US (1933–1945), has a plaque on Aldwyn Tower, a former hotel in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, where he stayed while convalescing from an illness during his childhood.
• Alan Turing has a plaque in 2 Warrington Crescent, Maida Vale, Westminster, W9, London where he was born.
• A plaque for John Logie Baird marks where he gave the first public demonstration of television in 22 Frith Street, Westminster, W1D 4RP
• Virginia Woolf has a plaque where she lived between 1907-1911 in 29 Fitzroy Square, London, W1