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Plaque Of The Day
Jez says, "I saw this displayed on the front page of Open Plaques as a random plaque and thought that it deserved highlighting. Lionel Logue was of course played by Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech in 2010"
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
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Emilie Hecht [full inscription unknown]
English translation: Emilie Hecht
Trautenaustr. 16, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany
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The line below marks the South East corner of Chilwell Hall cleared May 1933
214-218 High Road, Chilwell, United Kingdom
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Texas Historical Marker #09711
Site of Fort Croghan. Established by Lieut. C. H. Tyler, United States Second Dragoons, by order of the War Department, March 18, 1849, as a protection to frontier settlers against hostile Indians. Abandoned in December, 1853 as the settlements had extended farther west. #9711
703 SH 29, Burnet, TX, United States
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Hier wohnte Ilse Flatow Verh. Herz jg. 1919 Flucht 1939 Holland England
English translation: Here lived Ilse Flatow Verh. Herz born 1919 Flucht 1939 Holland England
Niklasstraße 5, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin, Germany
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Eric Linklater 1899-1974 Author and Poet Rector 1945 - 1948
Elphinstone Hall, High Street, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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A ferry has operated at this point on the river for many centuries, carrying passengers between the Cathedral Watergate and the Chapter Meadows on the opposite bank. It crossed every day until the late 1950's. The service was restarted in 1983. Running during summer weekend afternoons. The proceeds are given to local charities.
Near Kleve Walk, Worcester, United Kingdom
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This stone is erected by Yeovil Town Council in grateful recognition of the splendid services rendered on behalf of the town by the British Red Cross Society in providing a hospital for the care of 1200 wounded sailors & soldiers and to the Baptist Church for the generous loan of these premises for the purpose during the Great War 1915-1919. Alderman W. R. E. Mitchelmore - Mayor of Yeovil
Newnam Memorial Block, South Street, Yeovil, United Kingdom
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Тулинцев Александр Семёнович 1925 – 2015. Герой Советского Союза
English translation: Tulintsev Alexander Semyonovich 1925 — 2015. Hero of the Soviet Union [AWS Translate]
ул. Лилии Иванихиной, 9, Калининград - Kaliningrad, Russia
Carruber's Close. William Carriberis, merchant c 1450, had his mansion here. A Jacobite resort from 1688. In 1736 Allan Ramsay launched a theatre which the magistrate closed.
Carruber's Close, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
William Pitt 1st Earl Of Chatham 1708 – 1778 Lived at South Lodge near this Site prior to 1754
44 Merryhills Drive N2, London, United Kingdom
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The Chatterton Fight. On this site 26 April 1826 Handloom weavers engaged in destroying the power looms in Thomas Aitken's mill were fired on by soldiers of the 60th Foot. Four men and one woman were killed. A fifth man, an onlooker, was also later shot dead.
Chatterton Road, Chatterton, United Kingdom
Boston Police Strike Sept 9th, 1919. On this site at Dover and Fay Sts. was the original location of the Boston Social Club, which was chartered by the American Federation of Labor on August 15th, 1919, as local 16,807 to represent Boston Police Patrolmen. On August 26th, Union President John F. McInnes and 18 of his newly-elected union representatives were suspended by the police commissioner for forming a union in violation of Department rules. On Sept. 9th, 1919, at 5:45 pm, 1,117 Boston Policemen left their posts in support if their leaders and went on strike. Three days of rioting ensued, ending only after a call-up of the National Guard. None of the striking police officers were ever rehired.
East Berkeley Street, Boston, MA, United States