United Kingdom / Manchester subjects

234 out of 258 (90%) plaques have been curated

281

Gender Diversity

Frank Kingdon-Ward
(1885-1958) botanist

William Harrison Ainsworth
(1805-1882) writer

Eric Mayer
(1903-1971) director

first automatic traffic signals in the North West of England
traffic lights

Ian M. Gall
(1932-2005) Mr Castlefield

Professor Tom Kilburn CBE FRS
(1921-2001) Professor

Sir Professor Frederic Calland Williams CBE FRS
(1911-1977) Professor

Platt Chapel
(1646-present) chapel

Pat Phoenix
(1923-1986) actor

Bryan Mosley
(1931-1999)

Doris Speed MBE
(1899-1994) Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Violet Carson OBE
(1898-1983) Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Catenian Association
(1908-present) association

Roy Castle OBE
(1932-1994) Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Herbert Birley
(1821-1890) Chairman of the Manchester School Board

Walter Carroll
(1869-1955) musician

Little Ireland
(1827-1877) slum

Manchester Foot Hospital
hospital

Robert Howard Spring
(1889-1965) journalist

Prince Rupert
(1619-1682) Prince

Catholic Social Guild
(1909-present) society

Pierre Adolphe Valette
(1876-1942) painter

Manchester Poor House
(1764-1792) Poor House

The Duke of Cumberland tavern, Manchester
(1819-1901) tavern

Annie Horniman CH
(1860-1937) theatre director

Gaiety Theatre, Manchester
(1884-1959) theatre

Elizabeth Gaskell
(1810-1865) novelist

Manchester
city

Sir William Fairbairn FRS 1st Baronet
(1789-1874) engineer

Louis Paulhan
(1883-1963) pioneer aviator

Royal Hotel, Manchester
coaching inn

Friedrich Engels
(1820-1895) political philosopher

Co-operative Insurance Company
company

Alfred Waterhouse
(1830-1905) architect

Ernest Jones
(1819-1869) Chartist leader

Edward Salomons
(1828-1906) architect

John Barker
architect

John Nelson
stonemason

Manchester United Football Club
(1878-present) association football club

Cathedral Church of St. Mary, St. Denys and St. George, Manchester
cathedral church

first Manchester Gas Works
(1817-present) gas works

Edgar Wood
(1860-1936) artist

Daniel Adamson
(1820-1890) engineer

John Hay Beith
(1876-1952) novelist

Shudehill Fight
riot

Robert Owen
(1771-1858) entrepreneur

Hannah Mitchell
(1871-1956) City Councillor

first aerodrome in Manchester
(1917-1924) aerodrome

Sir Lt Gen Harry Smith GCB 1st Baronet
(1787-1860) statesman

Northern Rugby Football Union
(1895-present) rugby football league

The Football League
(1888-?) football league

Sir Henry Royce OBE 1st Baronet
(1863-1933) builder of the first Rolls Royce car

Charles Rolls FRGS FRMetS MICE
(1877-1910) pioneer of motoring

James Sadler
(1753-1828) pioneer English aeronaut

Marie Stopes
(1880-1958) writer

Denise Johnson
(1963-2020) vocalist

Yuri Gagarin
(1934-1968) cosmonaut

pissotière, Manchester
urinal

Palace Theatre, Manchester
theatre

Dr Edward Schunck PhD DSc FRS
(1820-1903) Doctor of Philosophy

Norman Evans
(1901-1962) comedian

Jimmy Jewel
(1909-1995) comedy actor

Frank Randle
(1901-1957) King Fun of Blackpool

Sandy Powell MBE
(1900-1982) comedian

Middleton Hall
hall

Tommy Taylor
(1932-1958) Busby Babe

Dodie Smith
(1895-1990) author

Alison Uttley
(1884-1976) author

Sir Lord Ernest Rutherford OM PRS FRS
(1871-1937) Dalton Medal recipient

Sir Joseph Whitworth FRS 1st Baronet
(1803-1887) innovator

Robert Donat
(1905-1958) actor

John Wesley MA
(1703-1791) evangelist

Peak District and Northern Counties Footpaths Preservation Society
(1894-present) society

Piccadilly railway station, Manchester
(1842-present) railway station

John Dalton
(1766-1844) founder of the scientific atomic theory

Thomas de la Warre
(1359-1426) Rector of Manchester

Humphrey Chetham
(1580-1653) merchant

Chetham's Hospital
manor house

Dr Frederick Crace Calvert PhD FRS
(1819-1873) Professor of Chemistry

Charles Worsley
(1623-1656) first Member for Manchester

Nikolaus Otto
(1832-1891) engineer

Sir Frank Worrell
(1924-1967) Knight Bachelor

Beyer, Peacock and Company
company

Charles Beyer
(1813-1876) founder member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Richard Peacock
(1820-1889) founder member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Garratt Class Steam Locomotive No 2352
(1930-present) steam locomotive

Anne, Princess Royal
(1950-present)

Longridge House
(d.1996) head office of British Engine Insurance Ltd

Royal & Sun Alliance
company

Mark Addy
(d.1889)

Ford Madox Brown
(1821-1893) painter

Sir Charles Hallé
(1819-1895) founder of the Hallé Orchestra

Richard Lane
(1795-1880) architect

Caribbean Focus
cultural event

Les Dawson
(1932-1993) comedian

Charlotte Brontë
(1816-1855) novelist

Rev Patrick Brontë
(1777-1861) Reverend

Richard Cobden
(1804-1865) pioneer of free trade

Inner Wheel Founder Club
(1924-present) society

L. S. Lowry
(1887-1976) artist

Sir Dr Edward Frankland KCB PhD FRS
(1825-1899) Fellow of the Royal Society

Sir Rt Hon. Dr Henry Roscoe PC PhD FRS BA
(1833-1915) Doctor of Philosophy

Ernest Tyldesley
(1889-1962) cricketer

Ken Dodd OBE
(1927-present) Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Tameside Hippodrome
theatre

unemployed march from Ardwick Green
(1931) march

Lancashire Aero Club
club

Anthony Burgess BA
(1917-1993) writer

Chaim Weizmann
(1874-1952) scientist

Alan Turing
(1912-1954) code-breaker

Belle Vue, Manchester
zoological gardens

Barton Aerodrome

John Rylands
(1801-1888) businessman

Enriqueta Rylands
(1843-1908)

John Benjamin Dancer
(1812-1887) optician

Dr William Henry FRS
(1774-1836) Doctor of Medicine

Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster
(1351-1962) court

James
(1982-present) band

The Haçienda
nightclub

Tim Booth
(1960-present) band member

Paul Gilbertson
(1962-present) band member

Gavan Whelan
band member

Jim Glennie
(1963-present) band member

Heaton Park Tramway Siding
(1905-present) tramway

John Bradford
(1510-1555) martyr

Edward Barlow
(1585-1641) martyr

Salford's Children

Rolls-Royce
company

John Byrom
(1692-1763) author of Christians Awake

Boardwalk, Manchester
(1984-1999) Madchester venue

Ellen Wilkinson
(1891-1947) stateswoman

Alport Lodge, Manchester
lodge

Lord Earl James Stanley
(1607-1651) Baron Strange

Together Trust
(1870-present) charity

Charles Edward Stuart
(1720-1788) member of the Jacobite rising of 1745

Manchester Town Hall
town hall

Iwakura Ambassadors' Mission
(1871-1873) diplomatic mission

Iwakura Tomomi
(1825-1883) ambassador extraordinary

Ōkubo Toshimichi
(1830-1878) statesman

Kido Takayoshi
(1833-1877) statesman

Itō Hirobumi
(1841-1909) Prime Minister of Japan

Kume Kunitake
(1839-1931) historian

Capt Robert Bradshaw
British Army Captain

Capt John Rosworm
British Army Captain

Sir Edwin Chadwick KCB
(1800-1890) public health reformer

Alliott Verdon Roe
(1877-1958) maker of the first all-British powered flight

Manchester Ship Canal
(1894-present) canal

Sam Wild
Commander of the British Battalion of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

William Butterfield
(1814-1900) architect

Sir Arthur Whitten Brown KBE
(1886-1948) Knight of the British Empire

Wesleyan Church, Rusholme
(1862-present) church

Mancunian Films
film production company

BBC Television Northern Studios
television studios

Sylvia Pankhurst
(1882-1960) campaigner for women's rights

Emmeline Pankhurst
(1858-1928) founder of the Suffragette Movement

Dame Christabel Pankhurst DBE
(1880-1958) founder of the Suffragette Movement

The Circus, Manchester
public house

Midland Hotel, Manchester
hotel

Charles Robert Cockerell RA
(1788-1863) architect

Bank of England
(1694-present) bank

James Herriot
(1815-?) tailor

Court of Record for the Hundred of Salford in the County of Lancaster
(1869-1971) court

Dr Peter Mark Roget
(1779-1869) physician

Stephen Hunt
(d.2013) firefighter

New Bailey Street Bridges
bridge

Aneurin Bevan
(1897-1960) politician

National Health Service
(1948-present) public health service

Sir William Brereton 1st Baronet
(1604-1661) Baronet Brereton of Hanford

Humphrey Verdon Roe
(1879-1949) founder

Avro
(1910-1963) company

Field-Marshal Duke Arthur Wellesley
(1769-1852) Duke of Wellington

George Cadbury Junior
(1878-1954) chocolate manufacturer

Liverpool Road railway station, Manchester
(1830-1975) railway station

Charles White FRS MRCS
(1728-1813) Fellow of the Royal Society

Joseph Jordan
(1787-1873) founder of the first provincial school of anatomy

Margaret Ashton
(1856-1937) Suffragist

Ivan Levinstein
(1845-1916) chemist

Rt Hon. Sir Lord William Thomson OM PC GCVO PRS FRS FRSE PRSE
(1824-1907) physicist

James Prescott Joule
(1818-1889) scientist

Robert Angus Smith FRS
(1817-1884) Fellow of the Royal Society

Harold Brighouse
(1882-1958) playwright

Thomas De Quincey
(1785-1859) author

Sir Robert Peel 2nd Baronet
(1788-1850) Member of Parliament

Thomas Harrison
(1744-1829) architect

Philip Hindes
(1992-present)

Sir Captain John Alcock KBE DSC RN
(1892-1919) Royal Air Force Captain

DC Stephen Oake
(d.2003) Detective Constable

Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS
(1862-1942) developer of the first x-ray spectrometer

Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH OBE MC FRS
(1890-1971) Dalton Medal recipient

PC Raja Bashrat Ahmed
(d.1999) Police Constable

St. Ann's, Manchester
church

Lady Ann Bland
Lady

Rt Hon. The Most Revd and Rt Hon William Dawes PC 3rd Baronet
(1671-1724) Baronet Dawes of Putney

Pendleburys
(1889-1959) restaurant

George Holyoake
(1817-1906) social reformer

George Stephenson
(1781-1848) Chief Engineer of Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Manchester Ship Canal Railway swing bridge
(1941-present) bridge

Sir Harry Secombe CBE
(1921-2001) Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

David Williamson
(1966-2008) coffee guy

Manchester Corinthians
association football club

Walkers Croft Cemetery
(1815-1832) cemetery

Kwame Nkrumah
(1909-1972) President of Ghana

Jomo Kenyatta
(1894-1978) President of the Republic of Kenya

Pan African Conference
(1945) conference

General Mäkonnen Wäldä-Mika'él
(1852-1906) General

Amy Ashwood Garvey
(1897-1969) feminist

George Padmore
(1903-1959) Pan-Africanist

W.E.B. Du Bois
(1868-1963) scholar

St Augustine's, Manchester
(1820-1908) church

Tom Curry
(1894-1958) footballer

Elizabeth Raffald
(1733-1781) publisher of the first street and trade directory of Manchester

Frédéric Chopin
(1810-1849) composer

River Irwell
river

Ernest Leonard Leeming
(1889-1864) engineer

Trades Union Congress
federation

Manchester Grammar School
grammar school

The Rt Rev. Hugh Oldham
(1452-1519) Bishop of Exeter

Isobel Baillie
(1895-1983) soprano

Irwell Street Bridge
bridge

Arrivals Station

Superintendent James Bent
(1828-1901) Police Superintendent

Marguerite (Madge) Nuttall Addy OBE
(1904-1970) Special Services Overseas Operative

Cosgrove Hall Films
film production company

Danger Mouse
fictional character

Chorlton and the Wheelies
(1976-1979) animated children's television series

Count Duckula
animated children's television series

The Wind in the Willows
(1983-1990) animated children's television series

The Pied Piper of Hamelin
animated children's television series

The BFG
(1989) animated children's television series

Peterloo Massacre
(1819) massacre

Henry Hunt
(1773-1835) radical orator

Nico Ditch
earthwork

Duncan Edwards
(1936-1958) Busby Babe

Merchants' Warehouse, Castlefield
(1825-present) warehouse

Staffordshire Warehouse
warehouse

Edward Watkin
(1819-1901)

Coal Wharf, Manchester
(1764-present) wharf

Manchester's First Synagogue

Lord Ernest Simon
(1879-1960) industrialist

Shena Simon
(1883-1972)

69-77 Lever Street
(1787-present) houses

Castlefield Urban Heritage Park
houses

Britain's first Nuclear Free Zone
(1980-present) city

Frog and Bucket Comedy Club
club

4, 6 & 8 Bradley Street
houses

Rolls-Royce
(1904-present) company

Levenshulme South Station

Thomas Wright
(1789-1876) The Prisoners' Friend

Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) President of the United States

Paul Henry Abell
(1951-2021) historian

The Guardian
(1831-present) newspaper

C. P. Scott
newspaper editor

Dr The Rt Rev. James Prince Lee MA DD
(1804-1869) consecrator of 110 new churches

Peter Green
(1871-1961) Rector of St Philip's, Salford

The Most Rev. William Temple
(1881-1944) writer

The Hanging Bridge

Marie Ashworth
Pioneer Quay namer

Fenian Ambush, Manchester
(1867) incident

Zigzag Viaduct
viaduct

Castlefield Viaduct
viaduct

Water Street Colonnade

Manchester Borough Council
Council