Documenting the historical links between people and places as recorded by commemorative plaques
contribute
- You are all part of our mission to find all of the plaques in the world!
- Spotted one? Anyone can help us and add a plaque
- Take a photo. Add it to Wikimedia Commons or Flickr and link it to our record
- Spot an innaccuracy. Tell us.
Open Data
news
Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for updates.
Plaque Of The Day
myf says, "it's such a lovely thing to commemorate"
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
Old Stables Court This former veterinary surgery was erected by Thomas Mayer about 1815. Thomas Mayer and his son led the campaign for the Royal Charter of the veterinary profession granted in 1844.
6a Queen Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom
Subjects
Texas Historical Marker #12876
Lost Creek Cemetery. The original Hog Creek Cemetery was established in the 1870s, about one-half mile southwest of this site; after only two burials, the community chose to relocate, reportedly because of the rocky soil there. J. W. Graves (d. 1874) was the first person buried at this location, then owned by H.C. Hancock. Area residents continued to use the site and, in 1892, J.C. Hensley (Henslee) and his wife, L.E., deeded it to Brown County for cemetery and church purposes. A chapel was constructed by 1932, and the Hog Creek Cemetery Association organized in 1949, later changing its name, and that of the cemetery, to Lost Creek. Historic Texas Cemetery - 2002 #12876
?, May, TX, United States
Nevada Historical Marker #52
Cherry Creek. The town of Cherry Creek before you was part of a network of mining districts that operated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the Gold Canyon district in Egan Canyon, five miles to the south.Peter Corning and John Carpenter helped start the town of Cherry Creek when they staked the Tea Cup gold claim in 1872, resulting in a boom and the development of a town. At the town’s peak in 1882, it boasted a population of over 1,800. While production fluctuated, Cherry Creek continued to produce gold and silver ore into the 1940s.Egan Canyon to the south was part of the 1855 route established by Howard Egan and the Mormon Battalion, and surveyed for use in 1859 by the U.S. Army. By 1860, the Pony Express placed a change station at the west opening of the canyon. Between 1861 and 1869, Butterfield’s Overland Mail and Stage established a station here that grew into a small temporary town.In 1863, soldiers from Fort Ruby discovered gold in the canyon, leading to the creation of the town of Egan and a mining district. By 1865 there were three stamp mills in Egan processing ore from the district. Like Cherry Creek, to the north, Egan boomed and busted into the 1920s before mining ceased.
Cherry Creek Rd, Cherry Creek, NV, United States
В этом доме с 1950 по 1974 год жил заслуженный строитель РСФСР Осмоловский Владимир Петрович 25.04.1905-05.09.1974 внесший значимый вклад в восстановление и строительство послевоенной Калуги
English translation:
Lenina street, 123, Kaluga, Russia
_Rita_Klein.jpg?width=250)
Hier wohnte Rita Klein Geb. Jacobi Jg. 1911 Deportiert 1943 Theresienstadt Ermordet ???? in Auschwitz [full inscription unknown]
English translation:
Essener Straße 20, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Subjects
Ernest Boulton 1847-1904 Frederick Park 1846-1881 'Stella & Fanny' Victorian cross-dressers lodged at 13 Wakefield Street on this site 1868-1870
13 Wakefield Street, WC1N 1PF, London, United Kingdom
Subjects
_restored.jpg?width=250)
_Rita_Klein.jpg){kind=link}
Texas Historical Marker #02246
Granbury Railroad Depot. Representative of early 20th century rural Texas train stations, this depot was constructed in 1914. It replaced an earlier station that had been built when the railroad came to Granbury in 1887. The depot features wide overhanging eaves and a red tile roof. Although passenger service to Granbury had stopped by 1973, the depot stands as a reminder of the important role of the railroad in the city's history. #2246
109 E. Ewell St., Granbury, TX, United States
Leeds Methodist Pioneers The first purpose-built Methodist chapel in Leeds, the 'Old Boggart House' was erected here on Boggart Close in 1750-51. A public meeting here on 6 October 1813 led to the formation of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society which was highly influential in Methodism becoming a world church.
Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds, United Kingdom
Subjects
Ici vécut Bertie Albrecht héroïne de la Résistance Compagnon de la Libération Une des fondatrices du Mouvement Combat (M.L.N.) Exécutée à Fresnes le 29 Mai 1943 Hommage des Femmes de la Libération Nationale
English translation: Here lived Bertie Albrecht heroine of the Resistance Companion of Liberation One of the founders of the Combat Movement (M.L.N.) Executed in Fresnes on May 29, 1943 Tribute to Women of National Liberation [AWS Translate]
16 rue de l'Université, Paris, France
Subjects
Texas Historical Marker #00454
Boot Hill Cemetery. Along with law-abiding and God-fearing men and women were buried here, often without benefit of clergy, men who "died with their boots on". The name was borrowed from a cemetery in Dodge City, Kansas, while it was a resort of buffalo hunters and trail drivers #454
US 385 at Boy's Ranch, Vega, TX, United States
Geburtshaus von Georg Heinrich Pertz (1795-1876) Gründer der Hannoverschen Zeitung 1832 und erster Leiter der Monumenta Germaiae Historica der bedeutendsten Sammlung mittelalterlicher Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte.
English translation: Birthplace of Georg Heinrich Pertz (1795-1876) Founder of the Hannoverschen Zeitung 1832 and first director of the Monumenta Germaiae Historica of the most important collection of medieval sources on German history. [AWS Translate]
Burgstraße 1, Hannover, Germany
Калужское отделение ВОД "Боевое братство" в память о погибшем защитнике отечества лейтенант Ивашкин Владимир Владимирович 13.V.1976 ★ 14.XI.1999
English translation:
?, Ferzikovo, Russia