simon.s 1:08 Sat Apr 11
Blue plaques
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Been doing a fair bit of walking of late.
Quite a few round my way. Two of note:
Pte Sidney Godley (1889-1957), Awarded the first VC of the Great War 23 August 1914 In Debden.
My favourite in Loughton
Ron Greenwood (1921 – 2006), England Football Manager, Lived here
Any decent ones near you?
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gph
12:54 Mon Apr 13
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This sounds worse than C19.
"The Blue Plague came roaring out of the Congo and into the United States–and it can’t be stopped. The Infected become violently insane and impossibly strong."
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Blue_Plague.html?id=UfhtCQAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
Oh...
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chim chim cha boo
12:30 Mon Apr 13
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Two streets away, one of my favourite authors, George Orwell.
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lincslink
7:55 Sun Apr 12
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Agatha Christie.
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Mike Oxsaw
5:53 Sun Apr 12
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Barking & Dagenham's labour through and through. They won't be having anything to do with BLUE plaques if they can be avoided.
A Gay, One-legged, LBGFT+ Minke Whale memorial centre for minority use ONLY? Now your talking. How big do you want it?
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easthammer
5:07 Sun Apr 12
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I always thought Havering was the only London Borough devoid of a Blue Plaque but a quick search tells me that neither does Hillingdon. And there is only one Blue Plaque in Barking & Dagenham.
Bobby Moore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_Heritage_blue_plaques_in_London
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Browno22
3:27 Sun Apr 12
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Dudley Moore used to live down Baron Road. Runs from near chadwell heath Station down towards becontree. Ran down it a few times and no blue plaques
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joe royal
3:20 Sun Apr 12
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One left there to remind me?
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Far Cough
2:44 Sun Apr 12
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simon, there must be Blue plaques for Alf Ramsey and Dudley Moore in Dagenham? Possibly even one for Sandie Shaw :-)
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eswing hammer
2:25 Sun Apr 12
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There’s one on laindon station for Joan Sims of carry on fame .
https://d2zaosoacqim8t.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Plack1-768x479.jpg
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joe royal
1:58 Sun Apr 12
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When I leave ilford I reckon they will put one up for me.
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my left foot
11:31 Sat Apr 11
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Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud a few stones throw from my flat.
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ironsofcanada
10:31 Sat Apr 11
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We used to live a street over from (one of?) Tolkien's. The only one in Oxford I believe, at least.
Probably slightly more exciting than the lexicographer's one on our street then.
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. .
8:49 Sat Apr 11
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I have the Proofs of the ones that were at Upton Park in my Hall, John Lyall, Bobby Moore and Ron Greenwood.
Bought them at the John Lyall remembrance Dinner at Upton Park a fair few years ago
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martinbritt_63
1:54 Sat Apr 11
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There's one at 505 Commercial Road in memory of Victor Mclaglen - Oscar winner for "The Informer" and one of John Ford's favourite actors. She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, The Quiet Man etc.
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gph
1:36 Sat Apr 11
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But the Dolphin in Holborn claims exactly the same thing.
Hang on, did the Stoke Newington one go off?
The Holborn one did. Maybe that's the difference.
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Sven Roeder
1:34 Sat Apr 11
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He'd lived there (Agamemnon Rd, W Hampstead) from 1990 til his death in 2016 according to the plaque.
There are a couple on Well Walk as you walk down onto Hampstead Heath.
John Constable is on one side and saw a bunch of tourists standing around peering at the JB Priestley one one day.
Had their backs turned so didnt notice John LeCarre walking back into Hampstead behind them.
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tonka
1:29 Sat Apr 11
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Gph
No in Stoke Newington, the bomb fell into the garden of a pub on May 30th 1915
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simon.s
1:28 Sat Apr 11
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Sven
I met Burt at a boxing match at the Elephant & Castle of all places.
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gph
1:25 Sat Apr 11
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tonka lives in Holborn, or nearby. It's the Dolphin pub that has a clock that was stopped by the bomb up on its wall, isn't it?
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Sven Roeder
1:24 Sat Apr 11
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Went for a walk about a mile away from my current flat past one I lived in a few years back and saw a newish one that told me that I'd lived a couple of doors down from Burt Kwouk (Cato from Pink Panther films) for about 3 years without ever seeing him.
He'd probably been hiding waiting to attack Peter Sellers
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tonka
1:20 Sat Apr 11
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Mark Bolan and Daniel Defoe near me, as well as a brown plaque for the first ever bomb to fall on London in 1915 from a Zeppelin
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