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Plaque Of The Day
Thomas Clarkson multicoloured plaque
Gnomonic says, "this highly detailed plaque gives you the story behind the person commemorated"
Place Of The Day
Norwich, United Kingdom
Norwich has a long history. It has been a city since 1094. From the Middle Ages until the Industrial Revolution, Norwich was the largest city in England after London and one of the most important. This is refelected in its plaques.
Most-viewed plaques
In the last 11 years, between 20 May 2009 to 6 Jan 2021, Open Plaques had 4,530,517 page views from 1,234,480 users. Some were triggered by internet memes such as Steve Ullathorne's 2012 image of a George Orwell plaque with a CCTV camera next to it. Others, such as those for Alan Turing, were probably triggered by an anniversary and campaign for recognition.
- George Orwell 1903-1950 novelist & political essayist lived here (19526 page views)
- Jacob von Hogflume 1864-1909 Inventor of time travel. lived here in 2189 (15077 page views)
- George Orwell 1903-1950 novelist and political essayist lived here (6390 page views)
- Jimi Hendrix 1942-1970 guitarist and songwriter lived here 1968-1969 (5714 page views)
- Alan Turing 1912-1954 founder of computer science and cryptographer, whose work was key to breaking the wartime Enigma codes, lived and died here. (4085 page views)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 creator of Sherlock Holmes lived here 1891-1894 (3846 page views)
- Alan Turing 1912-1954 code breaker lived here from 1945-1947 (3679 page views)
- This building housed the offices of Charles Dickens' magazine 'All The Year Round' and his private apartments 1859-1870 (3339 page views)
- Dame Agatha Christie 1890-1976 detective novelist and playwright lived here 1934-1941 (3027 page views)
- The Peterloo Massacre. On 16th August 1819, a peaceful rally of 60,000 pro-democracy reformers, men, women and children was attacked by armed cavalry resulting in 15 deaths and over 600 injuries. (3006 page views)
recently photographed plaques
The Modern Railways Award Presented to Railtrack Major Stations for Manchester Piccadilly station Fairfield Street Entrance and Interchange by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal 2002
London Road, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Hier wohnte Efim Meckauer jg. 1940 deportiert 1943 Auschwitz verschollen
English translation: Efim Meckauer
Alt-Moabit 86c, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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Texas Historical Marker #13797
Georg Heinrich Buchsenschutz Family Cemetery. Mexican War veteran Georg Heinrich Buchsenschutz came to Texas in 1850. He bought more than 200 acres of farmland in this area in 1860, the same year he wed Friederike Schulmeier, with whom he had ten children. Their oldest daughter, Friederike, died at the age of fifteen in 1881 and was buried on the homestead. Her father was interred near her in 1895. Between 1910 and 1946, eleven other family members were buried at the cemetery. The site remains open to family descendants. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2001 #13797
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In the 1940s Chief Superintendent of ADRDE Sir John Cockcroft CBE OM KCB lived and held meetings here. With Ernest Walton he shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on particle accelerators.
Green Bank House, Bank Street, Malvern, United Kingdom
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Hier wohnte Ursula Meyer jg. 1923 Deportiert 19.2.1943 Ermordet in Auschwitz
English translation: Here lived Ursula Meyer born 1923 deported 19.2.1943 murdered in Auschwitz
Lichtenrader Straße 55, Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
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Stow Whipping Irons. The left hand irons are dated 1789 and have a makers stamp mark showing the letters W.H. possibly the initials of the maker of the irons. Records show that about 1600 a William Hill carried on the business of Stow village blacksmith.
Church Road, Stow, United Kingdom
Ferry Landing Barton Haven Close by on the West Bank for hundreds of years, two jetties served the Hull and Hessle Ferries
Barton Haven Footbridge, Barton-upon-Humber, United Kingdom
Project funded by public subscription Cost of building and fittings £200,000 Value of exhibits (excluding Koh-I-Noor diamond) £2 million Profits £186,437 Profits fund site for cultural insitutions on Exhibition Road
Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom
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Berkhamsted Heritage Walk #15
Dean Incent’s House 1500
High Street, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
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ici a vécu René Descartes 1596 - 1650 établi aux Pays-Bas, le philosophe français habita cette maison lors de ses séjours Parisiens de 1644, 1647 et 1648 «Me tenant comme je suis, un pied dans un pays et l'autre en un autre, je trouve ma condition très heureuse, en ce qu'elle est libre. " (lettre à la princesse Elisabeth de Bohème, Paris 1648) Cette plaque a été apposée en 1987, à l'occassion du 350ème anniversaire du Discours de la Méthode
English translation: here lived René Descartes 1596 - 1650 established in the Netherlands, the French philosopher inhabited this house during his Parisian stays of 1644, 1647 and 1648 “Holding me as I am, one foot in one country and the other in another, I find my condition very happy, in that it is free.” (letter to Princess Elisabeth de Bohème, Paris 1648) This plaque was affixed in 1987 to the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the [AWS Translate]
14, rue Rollin, Paris, France
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