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Blue Bermondsey People’s Mural - Russell Dryden

Blue plaque unveiled for railway worker who challenged Euston’s racial discrimination

A blue plaque has been installed at the former Notting Hill home of railway worker Asquith Xavier, whose challenge to racial discrimination helped bring an end to an unofficial "co...

Blue plaque unveiled in Haslemere for Paddington Bear author

Blue plaque unveiled in Haslemere for Paddington Bear author

Castle pub - SW11

Sir John Mills - WD6

Sir John Mills, Oscar-winning star of motion pictures including Borehamwood-made movies: Those Were the Days, Ice Cold in Alex, It's Great to be Young, Dunkirk, Operation Crossbow,...

Blue Bermondsey People’s Mural - Ada Salter

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - W1 - first plaque

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, poet & philosopher, lived here.LCC

Longman’s sign of the Ship and Swan on Saffron Hill

Just around the corner from Farringdon station stands a large Victorian warehouse with an intriguing plaque celebrating a 300th anniversary.Read more ›

Elizabeth Fry - E7

Elizabeth Fry, promoter of prison reform, lived here, 1829 - 1844.

Searle's Boathouse

{Beneath a hippopotamus and a pair of sculls:}On this site stood Searle's Boathouse, the first home of Leander Club, founded in 1818 and based in Henley-on-Thames since 1896.This s...

Bryan Forbes

This plaque honours Bryan Forbes CBE, distinguished film director, author and actor, who was head of production at EMI Elstree Studios 1969 - 1971.Elstree & Borehamwood Town Co...

De Quincey - W1

Thomas De Quincey, 1785-1859, man of letters, lived here.LCC

Can You Crack The Secret Code On This Westminster Plaque?

GCHQ's plaque contains a hidden code.

Tickets Alert: Tours of the Chelsea Pensioners’ private regimental museum

Although the Chelsea Pensioners now have a public museum next to their home at the Royal Hospital, they also have an older private museum, which is now available to visit on tours....

Little Holland House: A Romantic Arts And Crafts Gem Deep In South London

"I built my love a dwelling place..."

The Open House London buildings you’ll need to book in advance

From the BT Tower and Lloyd’s of London to Trellick Tower and hidden City halls, these are the Open House London visits that require advance booking.Read more ›

Leeds blue plaque award for Chinese communist revolutionary who called city home

Wang Fanxi was a leading Chinese Trotskyist revolutionary

Dublin heritage plaques: Who decides who gets recognition?

Dublin City Council programme recognises events and people, including the first Irish show by The Beatles to the Ballyfermot train ambush

Ham House cairn

This fountain is erected on the site of Ham House for many years the residence of Samuel & Elizabeth Gurney and their family, 1876.

Margaret Rutherford and Alastair Sim - Elstree

Dame Margaret Rutherford and Alastair Sim motion picture comedy greats, remembered by the British Comedy Society.Commemorating the centenary of cinema, 1996.In association with the...

HS2 installs a plaque 40 metres below London to celebrate the Brunels’ engineering legacy

HS2 has installed an unusual underground memorial where its Euston Tunnel passes directly beneath the Brunel family tomb at Kensal Green Cemetery.Read more ›

Lady Bidwell tree

Liquidambar styraciflua 'Aurea', Sweet Gum, planted by the Lady Mayoress, Lady Bidwell, 8th June 1990.

Pioneering fossil hunter recognised with blue plaque

Dorothea Bate discovered the dwarf elephant and the myotragus, an extinct goat-like antelope.

Freddie Mercury's London: Visit The Locations Linked To The Queen Frontman

Staues, plaques and studios.