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Plaques are issued by numerous organisations, and sometimes they are also part of a special set or series. We endeavour to identify the series and also the series identifier
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To commemorate British gold medal winners at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, various post boxes in the home towns of the medal winners were repainted gold, subsequently receiving a plaque denoting the recipient.
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Based around the circular fountain in the BBC TV Centre. All worked there
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The Berliner Gedenktafel (Berlin memorial plaque) is a special form of memorial plaques, which was founded in the year 1986
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A sub-series of tributes to the Armed Forces of the United States. Distinct from Blue Star Memorial Highway series and the Blue Star Memorial By-way series, these markers are used in National Cemeteries, parks, veterans facilities, and gardens.
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The Blue Star Memorial Highways markers pay tribute to the U.S. armed forces. The National Council of State Garden Clubs, now known as National Garden Clubs, Inc., started the program in 1945 after World War II.
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issued by ANWB Stichting in the Netherlands (now discontinued) there are an estimates 10-15,000. There is no official record of where
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In the late 1980s South Tyneside council had an idea for branding certain areas with a view to attracting tourists. Underfunded and underrealised, the whole fiasco consisted of some dull signs erected on wasteland and grass verges.
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Issued to celebrate the 120th anniversary of Rugby League
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The British Film Institute and Scottish Film Council ran a competition where the public could nominate film greats to be commemorated with a special film-cell plaque. These plaques are dotted throughout the UK. There are 262 in the series.
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Celebrating 400 years of the Worcester Royal Charter 1621-2021
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Twenty-five women commemorated by bronze plaques in the city include artists, trades unionists, social reformers, suffragettes, a shipyard welder and a marine engineer. They are - or should be - the pride of Dundee.
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A series of blue plaques commemorating some of the more famous locations on the Dymchurch Heritage Trail
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EH inherited many plaques from the Royal Society of Arts, London County Council, Greater London Council, and others. The plaques in this series are administered by them.
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English Heritage trialled a scheme for blue plaques outside of London between 1998 and 2007 with 14 plaques being erected in Merseyside, 7 in Birmingham, 7 in Portsmouth and 6 in Southampton between 2000 and 2005.
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A comparatively recent offshoot of the National Garden Clubs Blue Star Memorial programs. It is to honor families of those whose loved ones served our country and paid the ultimate price.
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A uniform series of red plaques to be found in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is not know which organisation was responsible for erecting these, though it was almost certainly not the Borough itself.
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In 1993, 675 plaques were installed all over Paris which told stories about the history of this remarkable city. Commissioned by Jacques Chirac as mayor of Paris, they were designed by Philippe Starck to look like oars
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The ‘I am a Refugee’ campaign celebrates the contribution refugees have made, and continue to make, to life in the UK.
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An A-Z trail by Laura Potter on the pavements of Newhall Street and Graham Street in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
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Plaques in the official London scheme which commemorate figures known for their connection to the London Underground utilise the Johnston typeface used in official London Underground signage and promotional material for over a century.
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Established over 30 years ago, in conjunction with Scottish Borders Council and a number of community based organisations in Kelso, Scotland
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placed by the Historical Markers Society, Kentucky Highways Department and Kentucky Historical Society
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An experimental series of brown plaques to a simplified design which was intended to be the new standard type for the London County Council. Six were made c1939. The missing pair were to Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Hardy, both replaced.
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A series of seven London County Council plaques produced in 1925–6 in the ‘Della Robbia’ style, featuring a colourful raised wreath border. Five plaques of this type, manufactured by Doulton, survive.
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The ‘medallion’ form of plaque was especially popular in the early years of the twentieth century. Those erected by the London County Council are made of bronze.
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The LCC continued to experiment with plaque design after the blue roundel with white surround became the standard in 1948. These rectangular plaques were used intermittently from 1949 to 1960.
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Thomas Jefferson toured France in 1787. This project placed plaques in 45 of the French towns Jefferson visited. https://www.les-ponts-du-coeur.com/ and https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/travel/13footsteps.html
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'Málaga hace historia' ('Malaga makes history', in English) is a series of commemorative plaques operated by the Malaga City Council to mark the main historical landmarks in the city of Malaga, Spain.
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https://ncwhs.org/votes-for-women-trail/about-the-trail/
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People who made historical impact on Poole, Dorset
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Pink Plaques erected during the 2019 Highgate Festival. Temporary in nature, most appear have been lost or placed in storage. https://highgatefestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/pink-plaque-map.pdf
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A project by the Design Disruption Group. https://designdisruptiongroup.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/plaques-for-northern-heroes-2/
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Fourteen pubs with historic significance recognised by the Campaign for Real Ale with commemorative plaques in February 2006 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/inns-of-distinction-the-pubs-that-made-history-5335366.html
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'Ruta picassiana' ('Picassian Route', in English) includes a series of commemorative plaques, created by the Pablo Ruiz Picasso Foundation and the Malaga City Council, which relate places in the city of Malaga to the life of the painter Pablo Picasso.
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Artist Gunter Demnig has given this word a new meaning, that of a small, cobblestone-sized memorial for a single victim of Nazism.
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Marking the centenary of Swansea University 1920-2020 https://www.swansea.ac.uk/centenary2020/navy-plaques/
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Created in 2005 to commemorate the delivery of dispatches telling of victory at Trafalgar in 1805. See http://adventuresofkate.co.uk/the-trafalgar-way-plaque-locations/ for a good write-up.
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a series of plaques commemorating famous people and places and events in the history of Thurrock erected and paid for by Thurrock Local History Museum which is run by Thurrock Council
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Put together by the Wales Millennium Centre, the Tiger Bay Tales trail is inspired by true stories and accounts from members of the Tiger Bay community.
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Series of Heritage Toronto plaques erected in 2012 at various sites of interest within the former Gooderham and Worts distillery complex, now the Toronto Distillery District high-end retail opportunity
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In August of 2013 The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) announced an open competition for a design to be put on to commemorative paving stones to honour Victoria Cross recipients throughout the UK.
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A series of plaques erected in 2015 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo
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Series set up by New South Wales Ministry for the Arts
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