London Blue (and other) Plaques
Folder: London Themes
06 Oct 2012
Chopin blue plaque
06 Oct 2012
Francis Chichester plaque
Henry Pelham plaque
Introduced Gregorian calendar. So if it hadn't been for him we might still have been celebrating new year's day in March.
Henry Pelham bio on Number 10 website
William Huskisson plaque
St James's Place
Also the world's first widely reported railway casualty as he was run over by George Stephenson's locomotive engine Rocket.
Wikipedia
02 Apr 2013
Palgrave blue plaque
York Gate
23 Mar 2013
Bruce Bairnsfather blue plaque
See Wikipedia
Samuel Johnson plaque
Dr Samuel Johnson, Author. 1709-1784
28 Feb 2010
Charles Dickens lived here
Bayham St, Camden Town
When Charles was aged 10 the Dickens family moved to 16 Bayham St, since demolished. It was a two-storey house, built in the early nineteenth century, consisting of four rooms, basement and garret at a rent of £22pa and thought to be the model for the Cratchits' home in A Christmas Carol .
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