[Misc] Blue Plaques Ever Lived Near One?

[Albion in the north]

I live in a tiny village but we have 2. Both for scientists. The birth place of Sir John Cockroft, who was the first person to artificially split the atom nucleus and Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson who was a chemist.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

The Monkey and I used to live in the 1st floor flat of the VERY BUILDING in which Michael Faraday once lived (or did something sciency) in London. Blue plaque outside our front door, so I think we win the prize.

 

[grubbyhands]

P.G.Wodehouse,Lewis Carroll and Alan Turing all resident in Guildford some 6 miles from me at some time.

 

[Gwylan]

Here's a list of the blue plaques in Brighton And Hove: https://www.visitbrighton.com/dbimgs/List of Blue Plaques.pdf

... a list that's missing the afore-mentioned Havergal Brian.

 

[PTC Gull]

When we lived in London we had, within 20 mins walking distance the following:
Flanders and Swann. Those of a certain age will remember them
Learie Constantine. Cricket lovers will recognize him.
Rudolph Nureyev. Some dancer of note.
Agatha Christie. Wrote a few books
Jean Sibelius. Made tunes
James Joyce. Wrote stuff
TS Eliot. Wrote more stuff.
John McDouall Stuart. (first explorer to cross Australia)
Kenneth Grahame (Wrote Wind in the Willows)
There are a bunch of others. As an aside we lived 2 minutes from Freddie Mercury house and a 25 min walk to Richard Branson gaff near Notting Hill. And if I recall Frankie Howard had a place round the corner (ooooh Matron) from Freddies place.

 

[lawros left foot]

Worthing has got loads!

THE WORTHING SOCIETY – THE BLUE PLAQUE TRAIL AND LEAFLETS Promoting our Heritage
The Blue Plaque Trail
LEAFLETS
1. Beach House (1820) Brighton Road
2. Jane Austen (1775-1817) Stanford Sq.
3. St. Pauls (1812-2012) Chapel Road
4. Philp McCutchan (1920-1996) 107 Portland Road
5. Harold Pinter (1930-2008) 14 Ambrose Place
6. Gladys Morgan (1898-1983) 30 Salisbury Road
7. W.H.Hudson (1841-1922) 8 Bedford Row
8. Dr Frederick Dixon (1799 – 1849) Union PlaceC
9. Alma Cogan (1932-1966) – 29 Lansdowne Road


The one I was looking for was Oscar Wilde who supposedly wrote The Importance of being Earnest in Worthing.

But that’s not there.

 

[Change at Barnham]

Bognor Regis Blue Plaque Trail

When the lockdown is over I invite you all to come to Bognor to walk our blue plaque trail.

I could also throw in where Robert Smith of The Cure lives and where Gandhi visited. And also a guided tour The Nye Camp, home of Bognor Regis Town, current holders of the Sussex Senior Cup.

 

[Hampster Gull]

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[Gwylan]

We have a blue plaque on William Blake's cottage in Bognor where he wrote the words to Jerusalem.

Surprisingly, there's also a plaque to James Joyce in Big or. I discovered it by chance one morning: he wrote parts of Finnegans Wake there

 

[marlowe]

Here's a list of the blue plaques in Brighton And Hove: https://www.visitbrighton.com/dbimgs/List of Blue Plaques.pdf

I'm surprised that there isn't one at 10 Portland Road, Hove considering that Bernard Youens (née Popley) who played Stan Ogden in Coronation Street was born there.

 

[indy3050]

Worthing has got loads!

THE WORTHING SOCIETY – THE BLUE PLAQUE TRAIL AND LEAFLETS Promoting our Heritage
The Blue Plaque Trail
LEAFLETS
1. Beach House (1820) Brighton Road
2. Jane Austen (1775-1817) Stanford Sq.
3. St. Pauls (1812-2012) Chapel Road
4. Philp McCutchan (1920-1996) 107 Portland Road
5. Harold Pinter (1930-2008) 14 Ambrose Place
6. Gladys Morgan (1898-1983) 30 Salisbury Road
7. W.H.Hudson (1841-1922) 8 Bedford Row
8. Dr Frederick Dixon (1799 – 1849) Union PlaceC
9. Alma Cogan (1932-1966) – 29 Lansdowne Road


The one I was looking for was Oscar Wilde who supposedly wrote The Importance of being Earnest in Worthing.

But that’s not there.

Might have misread but I’m certain it’s down near Bens Hand Car Wash

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

the only one I can recall is

Sir Ernest Shackleton in Eastbourne

Apparently he lived in Milnthorpe Road for 6 years

Thankfully they were removed as a point of interest in the knowledge, some were a nightmare to find.

This guys house wasn’t too difficult to find

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[dazzer6666]

Not lived, but there were loads around my old office.....Hendrix, Handel, Nelson, Florence Nightingale.........spent a few lunch hours wandering around looking for them.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Yes, next door but one to the house where Rev Patrick Bronte lived from 1813-1819, before the family moved to Haworth.

 

[happypig]

No-one interesting then.
Where's the plaques for Rylan Clark-Teeth, Amanda Holden and the Incest twins from Gogglebox ?

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Some friends of ours own a house with a plaque for Ralph Reader who was something to do with the scouts

 

[Cheshire Cat]

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Noticed this on Old Shoreham Road (quite close to the dump) the other day. Doesn't look like an "official" blue plaque and had never heard of her. Turns out she wrote a book about being a domestic servant that inspired the TV show Upstairs/Downstairs.

The book is quite good. Worth a read if you can find a copy. She wrote several.

 

[knocky1]

There are a couple for entertainers I've never heard of on St Aubyn's mansions (on Hove seafront between Maroccos and King Alfred).

Then there is this on Lansdowne Road

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I was brought up in Brunswick Road near the Churchill Plaque and now live 70m from Tilley and Butt.

 

[Yes Chef]

I live slap bang in the middle of Chichester, so there's loads, but to be honest I'm not sure if I'd heard of any of them beforehand.

William Blake, he of 'Jerusalem', was arrested in the local Wetherspoons for fighting, and they had a mocked up plaque in there which was quite funny. Presumably it wasn't a Spoons when he was in there.

 

[Billy in Bristol]

Lived in the next road from where Archibald Leach was born better known as Cary Grant.