Pink Plaque Project #A
Victoria Wood 1956-2016 Prolific and much loved comedian, actor, singer-songwriter, producer, director and screenwriter. She was nominated for 13 BAFTAs, winning four times and received a Special Award in 2005. She was a Quaker and a vegetarian.
Highgate West Hill, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #B
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper 1888-1971 Actor with a 70-year career on stage & TV. She was nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for Now, Voyager (1942), The Song of Bernadette (1943) and as Mrs Higgins, in My Fair Lady (1964).
2 The Grove, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #C
Margaret Rumer Godden OBE 1907-1998 Prolific author of fiction and non-fiction. Nine of her works were made into films, including Black Narcissus (1947) and The River (Jean Renoir, 1951). She won a Whitbread Award in 1972 for The Diddakoi.
2 The Old Hall, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #D
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) [full inscription unknown]
37 Highgate West Hill, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #E
Harriot Mellon 1777-1837 Famous actress, who came from a family of Irish strolling players, married banker Thomas Coutts, then Duke of St Albans and built up the Holly Lodge estate. She defied convention by bequeathing her wealth to her step-granddaughter Angela (Burdett-Coutts).
Holly Lodge Gardens, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #F
Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906) Radical Philanthropist, gave most of her fortune to good causes, especially children, women and the poor, in the UK & abroad. She started Columbia Market and built Holly Lodge Village. Buried in Westminster Abbey, thousands of people queued to pay tribute to the 'Queen of The Poor'.
Holly Lodge Gardens, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #G
Stella Dorothea Gibbons 1902-1989 English journalist, poet and author of Cold Comfort Farm. Highgate was the setting for one of her best-known novels, Westwood (Southwood House). She is buried in Highgate Cemetery.
19 Oakeshott Avenue, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #H
Baroness Summerskill of Kenwood 1901-1980 [full inscription unknown]
30 Millfield Lane, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #I
Felicity Sparrow is a curator, producer and writer who spent her career 'rewriting women's film history'. In the late 1970s she co-founded the feminist film and video organisation Circles from her small flat on the Holly Lodge Estate, created by Angela Burdett-Coutts for single working women.
Makepeace Mansions, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #J
Elizabeth Siddal 1829-1862 Significant artist and poet with works at Wightwick Manor and the Ashmolean. She was painted by the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and was the model for Millais' painting Ophelia (1852) She is buried in Highgate Cemetery.
Highgate Cemetery Entrace Gate, Swain's Lane, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #K
Isla Merry 1909-1975 She owned and ran the main grocer's shop in the high street for many years which was the beating heart of the village. She was a founding member and first woman chair of the Highgate Society and donated the Merry Mug for the annual quiz.
88 Highgate High Street, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
Pink Plaque Project #L
Phyllis Harper 1948- Butcher and 'Queen of Highgate' she has lived above and run the Highgate Butchers for 44 years. Considered a local institution for the home-made sausages, village gossip and Phyllis' banter. She would like to thank her customers for their loyal support over the years.
76 Highgate High Street, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #M
Barbara Castle 1910-2002 British Labour Party politician who was an MP from 1945-1979 and was then made a life peer in 1990. One of the most significant Labour Party politicians of the 20th Century, Castle developed a close political partnership with Harold Wilson and served in several Cabinet roles.
Cholmeley Lodge, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #N
Matilda and Emily Sharpe 1842-1928 Matilda was a teacher, educational reformer, author and painter and with her sister, Emily, established Channing School in 1885 to educate the daughters of Unitarian ministers and others. Several of her works can be found in the National Portrait Gallery.
Channing School, The Bank, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #O
Catherine Da Costa 1678-1756 English Jewish miniature and portrait painter, born in Somerset House, was named after Catherine of Braganza, and was known as a 'blue stocking'. She was taught by the famous drawing master Bernard Lens, tutor to the Royal Family.
Crowell Gouse, 104 Highgate Hill, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #P
Nell Gwynn 1650-1687 Prolific celebrity actress of the Restoration period, one of the first on the English stage, and praised by Samuel Pepys as 'pretty witty Nell'. Best known as a mistress of Charles II, she had two sons by him. Charles (Created Earl of Burford and later Duke of St Albans) and James Beauclerk. She briefly lived at Lauderdale House
Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #Q
Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) [full inscription unknown]
22 Southwood Lane, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #R
Joan Schwitzer 1925-2009 Founder member, Chairman and President of Hornsey Historical Society and author of many publications, pamphlets and walks about our local history including St Michaels Primary School. She also collected many oral histories and helped to save the Shepherds Hill Railway Allotments.
St Michael's Primary School, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #S
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830-1894 English poet who wrote romantic, devotional and children's poems including Goblin Market and Remember, and the words for the carol In The Bleak Midwinter. For many years she worked as a volunteer at the former refuge for prostitutes or 'fallen women' on North Road. She is buried in Highgate Cemetery.
2 North Hill, Highgate, London, United Kingdom
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Pink Plaque Project #T
Gretel Hinrichsen 1919- Shop owner of 'The Little Shop' on Archway Road, which sold beautiful wooden toys for children for over 20 years. In the 1950s she was one of the first residents of the Southwood House Estate where she still lives. Her living room is replicated in the Geffreye Museum.
Hillside Gardens, Highgate, London, United Kingdom