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Having read this article I went to YouTube and the second recommended video was "These London plaques are riddled with errors!" so the system works!
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I think it’s on the Bangladeshi embassy that there’s a blue plaque saying “First overseas building purchased by the Bangladeshi government”.
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9 Curzon St Mayfair was owned by singer songwriter Harry Nilsson. Both Cass Elliot and Keith Moon died there so that's another potential 3 plaque building
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Given that every PM at least nominally lived at No 10, perhaps the blue plaques there could be more specific: Boris Johnson partied here, Harold Macmillan never had it so good here, , Margaret Thatcher rejoiced here, etc etc
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If mere visiting counts, Waterloo Station must rank up there. And it's got enough wall for hundreds of plaques.
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I think you'll find the 5th Congress was held on the opposite corner of the side road (Balmes Road) which is the white building in the background of your piccy.
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The longevity of most of the great rockers of the 60s and 70s means that a lot of important plaques won't be erected for at least 20 years...
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What we should have are plaques on all the buildings that were pubs with dates of closure. People might start paying more attention.
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Comrade Stalin et al would actually merit a blue [or red?] plaque on the equally uninspiring block at Number 24 Southate Road, the site of the long demolished Brotherhood Church, on the other side of Balmes Road.
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One of my favourites when it comes to obscurity of location - but which covers three people in one - is the Short Brothers, commemorated on a mucky railway arch behind a Battersea petrol station's bin store. So much so I wrote this about it.
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Some people are forced to share a single blue plaque. In many cases they are related or worked together, but there are others such as the singer John Beard and the politician William Ewart who simply happened to live in the same house at different times: openplaques.org/plaques/430
Ironically Ewart was the inventor of the blue plaque scheme, so it seems a little unjust that he had to share! |
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The relationship between George Lansbury and Oliver Postgate is closer than you state, as they were in fact grandfather grandson (per Postgate's autobiography). This makes Postgate and Angela Lansbury first cousins.
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Fascinating, as ever.
I think that "cumulative congregations" is probably my favourite juxtaposition of two 4-syllable words. If one prefaced it with "concentration (of)" it would be my idea of a perfect three 4-syllable alliterative phrase. |
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Postgate tweaked, thanks.
The Tesco photo stays. This is what happens when you write a post in a hurry. |
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