A blue plaque is a recognised symbol of our national heritage; a living footprint of our history with each one serving as a permanent reminder of an important contribution to the history of the country.The blue plaques commemorate notable, influential and successful people from all walks of life. They are erected in the present to celebrate our past and inspire our future.This book contains 100 blue plaques, and the stories and people behind them, from across the United Kingdom, each linking, through a common denominator, to the next.From David Bowie to William Shakespeare, we run the gamut of plaques remembering kings, actors, singers, explorers, footballers, cricketers, writers, inventors, scientists, politicians, musicians, reformers, broadcasters, songwriters, comedians, pioneers, artists, the military, athletes, dancers, activists, poets and education.From Lennon and McCartney to the victims of Jack the Ripper this is an eclectic representation of British life, through our blue plaques, from the 1500s to 2017.
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The Writing on the Wall
100 Iconic Blue Plaques Commemorating Britain's History
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- David Bowie. W1F 0BQ
- Edward Smith. L22 8QP
- Len Hutton. LS28 7SQ
- Lord’s Cricket Ground. YO7 1PQ
- Buddy Holly & The Crickets. SP1 2AA
- Jimmy Kennedy. PO6 4SA
- Charles Laughton. W1T 1EE
- William Bligh. SE1 7PT
- Ernest Shackleton. SE26 6QR
- P. G. Wodehouse. W1K 7EG
- Percy Jeeves. DN14 6TH
- Siegfried Sassoon. W8 7JY
- Rupert Brooke. CB3 9ND
- Virginia Woolf. SW7 5DH
- Strawberry Studios. SK1 3BD
- John Lennon & Paul McCartney. RG4 8BN
- Ian Fleming. SW1W 8LW
- Noël Coward. TW11 8BB
- Paddington Bear. W2 1HV
- Mary Tourtel. CT1 2DY
- Alfred Bestall. KT5 8AS
- Earl Mountbatten of Burma. SW1X 8RN
- Winston Churchill. SW7 5DJ
- Nancy Astor. SW1Y 4JU
- George Bernard Shaw. DO8 P9F8 (Dublin)
- Alexander Fleming. W2 1NY
- John Betjeman. SW7 7RP
- Nick Drake. B94 5AP
- Sandy Denny. NN11 6UT
- Richard III. YO11 1HV
- Laurence Oliver. RH4 1JY
- Vivien Leigh. SW1W 9B6
- Jerry Lordan. SY9 5BW
- Bruce Welch & Brian Bennett. TS18 1PL
- The Brontës. BD13 3HF
- Annie Besant. SE19 1HA
- William Ewart Gladstone. SW1Y 5AJ
- Charles Dickens. WC2E 7BD
- John Mills. SL0 0NH
- Robin Gibb & The Bee Gees. OX9 3AA
- Alan Freeman. TW2 5AL
- Peter Cushing. CT5 1DD
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. B6 4DS
- Oscar Wilde. SW3 4JA
- Leslie Haden-Guest. SW3 4JA
- Clement Attlee. SW15 2HP
- Duncan Edwards. DY1 4EV
- Robert Baden-Powell. SW7 5DG
- Paul Robeson. NW3 7NA
- Jerome Kern. KT12 2PF
- Oliver Cromwell. CB2 3HV
- Samuel Pepys. WC2N 6DF
- Benny Hill. SW7 5EH
- Charlie Chaplin. SW9 ODS
- Lawrence Wright. LE2 0JN
- Amy Johnson. NW2 2PE
- Billy Butlin. CF62 5AJ
- Rick Parfitt & Status Quo. GU21 6GA
- L. S. Lowry. SK14 6NF
- Kenny Davenport. BL3 5NA
- Mary Ann Nichols, Catherine Eddowes & Elizabeth Stride. E12 5DQ
- Bud Flanagan. E1 6QR
- Arthur Lowe. SK22 2HS
- The Drill Hall, Ilkley. LS29 BE2
- George Formby. FY8 1PD
- Henry Irving. W1S 4ET
- Bram Stoker. SW3 4QG
- Mary Shelley. SW1W 9HJ
- Kenneth Williams. WC1N 1AP
- Tony Hancock. SW7 5NY
- J. R. R. Tolkien. HU5 2EG
- Roger Bannister. OX4 1EQ
- James Smithson. W1U 2EJ
- Danny Blanchflower. BT5 5JH
- Brian Clough. TS4 2RY
- Fred Astaire. P51 EY60
- J. M. Barrie. WC1N 1L2
- John Howard. WC1N 3JB
- The Short Brothers. MK42 0TG
- Barnes Wallis. DE5 3LT
- Eric Coates. NW1 5SG
- John Reith. SW1P 3NG
- John Logie Baird. W1D 4RP
- Claudia Jones. WMW 6PH
- Dylan Thomas. SA2 0RA
- Frédéric Chopin. SW1A 1NP
- William Penn. RH13 8QP
- Charles II. TF7 5BF
- Nell Gywnne. HR4 9DL
- Enid Bagnold. SW7 5DJ
- Edith Cavell. E1 1BB
- Henry Francis Lyte. KQ5 9AR
- The Football Association. HA9 0FA
- Bobby Moore. IG11 0BH
- Thomas Barnardo. E1 3NN
- Octavia Hill. W1V 4DS
- John F. Kennedy. SW7 1PV
- John Harvard. SE1 1JA
- William Shakespeare. EC2A 3QY
- Sir Donald Sinden. TN30 7HX
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
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