Documenting the historical links between people and places as recorded by commemorative plaques

Markuskirche Erbaut 1906 durch Otto Lüer (1865-1947). Das Mosaik über dem Eingang ist ein Geschenk Kaiser Wilhelms II. Die Fenster im Altarraum schuf 1967 Helge Breig.

English translation: St. Mark's Church Built in 1906 by Otto Lüer (1865-1947). The mosaic above the entrance is a gift of Emperor Wilhelm II. The windows in the altar room created by Helge Breig in 1967. [AWS Translate]

Oskar-Winter-Straße 7, Hannover, Germany

1643. Demeure de Philippe de Champaigne, peintre et valet de chambre de la Reine Mère.

English translation: 1643. Home of Philippe de Champaigne, painter and bedroom valet of the Queen Mother. [AWS Translate]

11 quai de Bourbon, Paris, France

Canterbury Private Hotel. This building, originally called the Canterbury Club Hotel, was built for William Malone in 1889/90. Its grand design with stables and yard reflected the boom of the late 1880's. The 16 window keystones depict the British Prime Minister, W. E. Gladstone. The hotel was delicenced in 1920 and became a guest house known as Canterbury Mansions.

Cnr Mailing Road and Canterbury Road, Canterbury, VI, Australia

The Pilot Inn The Church of the Holy Trinity stood opposite from 1412 until 1824: it is thought that the Inn was called Church House Inn before the 1830s. The Inn then took a new name, the Pilot or the Pilot Boat: the vicar tries to remove the licence, but lost the day. A later landlord cut off a troublemaker's ear in a brawl but escaped jail by getting the local surgeon to sew it back. In Victorian times the landlord, Captain Axon, collected so much West African memorabilia that it was more like a museum than a pub. It now boasts on its sign on of Exmouth's lifeboat hero's, pilot 'Dido' Bradford'

Pilot Inn, Exmouth, United Kingdom

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Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke 1843-1911 statesman and author lived here

76 Sloane Street, Kensington and Chelsea, SW1, London, United Kingdom

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Rt Hon. Sir Charles Dilke PC 2nd Baronet
(1843-1911) statesman

home of the maritime artist John Chancellor b.28-31925 d.9-4-1984. Born to British parents in Portugal John Chancellor spent 30 years at sea before finally settling in Brixham in 1963 using his talent to become one of our great modern day maritime artists

73 S Furzeham Rd, Brixham, United Kingdom

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В этом здании в 1918-1922 г. работали 18-е Калужские пехотные командные курсы, подготовившие 565 командиров Красной Армии. В 1920 г. за отличие в боях с врагами социалистического отечества курсы были награждены Реввоенсоветом Республики Почетным Революционным Красным Знаменем.

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Staryy Torg square, 4, Kaluga, Russia

This is the site of Thomasgate, the main entrance to the Cathedral precinct following William the Conqueror's enlargment of the royal palace up to the High Street. The land inside the gate was part of the Cathedral burial ground, but began to be used for wood, corn and livestock markets by the 14th century. Temporary market stalls became permanent buildings, leaving Market Street as a narrow access lane.

Monsoon, Market Street, Winchester, United Kingdom

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This building was constructed in 1871 as the warehouse of Heugh, Dunlop & Company, a company with the Scottish partners of John Heugh of Manchester and Walter Dunlop of Bingley.

Corner of East Parade and Peckover Street, Bradford, United Kingdom

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The Sandstone Quarries. Much of the bedrock in Runcorn is sandstone, formed from deserts which covered this area 200-250 million years ago. The remains of Halton Castle and Norton Priory show that sandstone has been used for building here since at least Norman times. During the 18th Century, quarrying became an important industry in Runcorn, with quarries at Weston, Mill Brow, Stenhills and several other sites. The industry reached its peak towards the end of the 19th Century, but by the beginning of WWII, quarrying in the town was all but finished. Runcorn sandstone had a beautiful, distinctive reddish-pink colour, and was respected by people in the industry because of the high quality of the stone. Runcorn sandstone has been used in many buildings in Runcorn and Widnes, other towns and cities in the United Kingdom, as well as countries across the world. Some famous buildings made completely or partially from our sandstone include Runcorn Railway Bridge, Norton Water Tower, Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral, Chester Cathedral, Tatton Hall in Knutsford, and the docks at Belfast, New York, and San Francisco. The Roundhouse, once known as The Quarry Hotel, stands near to where several of the Weston quarries used to be.

The Roundhouse pub, Heath Road South, Weston, Runcorn, United Kingdom

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Central Library (Grade II Listed). The Library is built on land provided by Blackpool Corporation and with monies donated by the Scottish born American multi-millionaire, Andrew Carnegie. The Library was officially opened by the Mayor, Alderman W.H. Broadhead, J.P. on the 26th October 1911. It replaced the former free Library in nearby Market Street (now the site of the Municipal Buildings) which had opened on the 25th March 1895. Kindly donated by Lancashire County Council.

Abingdon Street, Blackpool, United Kingdom

Erected under the direction of Colonel Cholmley Lord of the Manor of Whitby, the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Mulgrave, John Campion Coates, Richd. Moorsom, Willm. Skinner, Abel Chapmen, Heny. Walker Yeoman, Willm. Chapman, Harrison Chilton, Thos. Simpson, Richd. Moorsom Junr., Edmund Turton, John Barry, Thomas Fishburn, and Edward Chapman, Esquires, Trustees of the Piers and Harbour of Whitby, A.D. MDCCCXXX1. Francis Pickernell, Engineer

West Lighthouse, Battery Parade, Whitby, United Kingdom