The Writing on the Wall
100 Iconic Blue Plaques Commemorating Britain’s History
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CONTENTS
Introduction
David Bowie
Edward Smith
Len Hutton
Lord’s Cricket Ground
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Jimmy Kennedy
Charles Laughton
William Bligh
Ernest Shackleton
P. G. Wodehouse
Percy Jeeves
Siegfried Sassoon
Rupert Brooke
Virginia Woolf
Strawberry Studios
John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Ian Fleming
Noël Coward
Paddington Bear
Mary Tourtel
Alfred Bestall
Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Winston Churchill
Nancy Aster
George Bernard Shaw
Alexander Fleming
John Betjeman
Nick Drake
Sandy Denny
Richard III
Laurence Oliver
Vivien Leigh
Jerry Lordan
Bruce Welch & Brian Bennett
The Brontës
Annie Besant
William Ewart Gladstone
Charles Dickens
John Mills
Robin Gibb & The Bee Gees
Alan Freeman
Peter Cushing
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oscar Wilde
Leslie Haden-Guest
Clement Attlee
Duncan Edwards
Robert Baden-Powell
Paul Robeson
Jerome Kern
Oliver Cromwell
Samuel Pepys
Benny Hill
Charlie Chaplin
Lawrence Wright
Amy Johnson
Billy Butlin
Rick Parfitt & Status Quo
L. S. Lowry
Kenny Davenport
Mary Ann Nichols, Catherine Eddowes & Elizabeth Stride
Bud Flanagan
Arthur Lowe
The Drill Hall, Ilkley
George Formby
Henry Irving
Bram Stoker
108 Mary Shelley
Kenneth Williams
Tony Hancock
J. R. R. Tolkien
Roger Bannister
James Smithson
Danny Blanchflower
Brian Clough
Fred Astaire
J. M. Barrie
John Howard
The Short Brothers
Barnes Wallis
Eric Coates
John Reith
John Logie Baird
Claudia Jones
Dylan Thomas
Frédéric Chopin
William Penn
Charles II
Nell Gywnne
Enid Bagnold
Edith Cavell
Henry Francis Lyte
The Football Association
Bobby Moore
Thomas Barnardo
Octavia Hill
John F. Kennedy
John Harvard
William Shakespeare
About the Author
Acknowledgements
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