Subjects of historical plaques - B

Back Wynd
(1594-present) street
Sir Michael Balcon
(1896-1977) film producer
Enid Flora Balint-Edmonds
(1903-1994) psychoanalyst
British Ballet Organisation
(1930-present) organisation
Birmingham Municipal Savings Bank
(1931-present) first municipal savings bank in Great Britain
Sir Joseph Banks GCB PRS 1st Baronet
(1743-1820) botanist
Baptist Chapel, Yeovil
chapel
William Barnes
(1801-1886) poet
James Barry
(1741-1806) painter
H. E. Bates
(1905-1974) author
Alan Bates
(1934-2003) actor
Bull Inn, Battle
inn
Battle of Minisink
battle
Gilbert Bayes
(1872-1953) sculptor
Aubrey Beardsley
(1872-1898) artist
Beau
band
The Old Bell
Robert Benchley
(1889-1945) wit
Walter Benjamin
(1892-1940) literary critic
Arnold Bennett
(1867-1931) novelist
Charles Bennion JP
(1857-1929) Justice of the Peace
George Bentham
(1800-1884) botanist
Beorma
Jack (Kid) Berg
(1909-1991) Whitechapel Windmill
Alfred Bestall
(1892-1986) illustrator of Rupert Bear
Sir John Betjeman CBE
(1906-1984) poet
Ernest Bevin
(1881-1951) trade union leader
Laurence Binyon CH
(1869-1943) poet
Black Death
(1348-1350) pandemic
Francis Preston Blair
(1791-1876) newspaper founder
Sir Arthur Bliss CH KCVO
(1891-1975) composer
Alan Blumlein
(1903-1942) electronics engineer
Colin Blunstone
(1945-present) band member
Godfried Bomans
(1913-1971) writer
Robert Boothby-Heathcote
(1805-1865) Rector
William Borrer FRS FLS
(1781-1862) Fellow of the Royal Society
Rutland Boughton
(1878-1960) composer
Ray Bradbury
(1920-2012) author
James Braidwood
(1800-1861) superintendent of the London Fire Brigade
Sir Thomas Brandon KG
(d.1510) Knight of the Order of the Garter
Elizabeth Branwell
(1776-1842)
earliest commercial telephone in Britain
telephone
British Red Cross Society
(1870-present) society
John Brough
farmer
Spence Broughton
(1746-1792) highwayman
PC Laurence Brown
(d.1990) Police Constable
Beau Brummell
(1778-1840) leader of fashion
Sir James Brunlees FRSE MICE
(1816-1892) Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
John Burns
(1858-1943) statesman
Edward Bury FRS
(1794-1858) locomotive engineer