Recorded plaques and birthplaces, A to Z

Showing 2,401–2,460 of 14,869 records (0.4% of this list). The location is where the plaque or birthplace is recorded, not a claim about someone’s later home.

• Coastguard Cottages green plaque — North Lincolnshire, England Commemorative plaque This green commemorative plaque records: Coastguard Cottages Eight houses built 1862. Seven boatmen and one leading…
• Coastguard Lookout Tower bronze plaque — Cumberland, England Commemorative plaque This bronze commemorative plaque records: Coastguard Lookout Tower Built 1940 Recorded plaque organisation: The…
• Coastguard Lookout, Hunstanton green plaque — King's Lynn and West Norfolk, England Commemorative plaque This green commemorative plaque records: Coastguard Lookout Royal observer post 1907 Coastguard service 1963-8 Recorded…
• Coastguard Station, Barton-upon-Humber green plaque — North Lincolnshire, England Commemorative plaque This green commemorative plaque records: This building was erected as a Coastguard Station and opened by H.R.H. Duke of…
• Cobb Gate blue plaque — Dorset, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Cobb Gate A real gate once stood near this place, through which all cobb goods…
• Cockington Court blue plaque — Torbay, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Cockington Court manor house of the Squires of Cockington from Saxon times to…
• Cockpit House red plaque — Knowsley, England Commemorative plaque This red commemorative plaque records: Cockpit House/This 1776 townhouse, built on the site of a cockpit, has also been…
• Colchester Camp, Hyderabad Barracks, And Meeanee Barracks blue plaque — Colchester, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Hyderabad and Meeanee Barracks. Named after battles fought in Sindh, now…
• Colchester earthquake green plaque — Colchester, England Commemorative plaque This green commemorative plaque records: Britain's most destructive earthquake Colchester Earthquake Top of this church…
• Colchester Free Grammar School black plaque — Colchester, England Commemorative plaque This black commemorative plaque records: Here stood the Colchester Free Grammar School 1582-1852.
• Colin Bateman — County Down, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colin Bateman in County Down is where a British writer was born who probably names his cat after a Greek god. There’s a…
• Colin Blythe blue plaque — Tonbridge and Malling, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Colin Blythe Kent & England Cricketer 1879-1917 lived here Recorded plaque…
• Colin Butler white plaque — Cherwell, England Commemorative plaque This white commemorative plaque records: Colin Butler 1939-1997.
• Colin Campbell — City of Edinburgh, Scotland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colin Campbell was born here as a merchant who probably lost a bet to a priest about how much gold could fit in a…
• Colin Clarke — County Armagh, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colin Clarke (Birthplace) in County Armagh is where a footballer and manager was born and likely subbed himself off at…
• Colin Cowdrey blue plaque — Tonbridge and Malling, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Colin Cowdrey Kent & England cricketer 1932-2000 lived here Recorded plaque…
• Colin Crooks — County Tyrone, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colin Crooks in County Tyrone is a diplomat who has spent his life smoothing over wrinkles between nations, which…
• Colin Doyle — County Cork, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colin Doyle’s birthplace in County Cork would complain to the council that the grass is too green and distracting…
• Colin Farrell — County Dublin, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colin Farrell, the actor born in County Dublin, is hiding a message in his stones that only the rain can read properly.…
• Colin Hanton, John Lennon, The Quarrymen, 23 Princes Street, And 5 others — Liverpool, England Commemorative plaque This multicoloured commemorative plaque records: Paul McCartney John Lennon. In this hall on 6th July 1957 John & Paul…
• Colin Hanton, John Lennon, The Quarrymen, Paul McCartney, And 3 others — Liverpool, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: This plaque commemorates the recording here of The Quarrymen's first disc.…
• Colin Healy — County Cork, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colin Healy’s birthplace in County Cork has a shortcut that isn't a shortcut because it leads directly into a field of…
• Colin Kenny — County Dublin, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colin Kenny, the actor from County Dublin, has a favourite song he hums when nobody is watching, probably something…
• Colin Macfarquhar — City of Edinburgh, Scotland Birthplace Explorer Tom This Edinburgh location proudly claims Colin Macfarquhar as its own, a bookseller who definitely hid a secret stash of…
• Colin Mackey plaque — Havant, England Commemorative plaque This commemorative plaque records: In memory of Councillor Colin Mackey who did so much for Emsworth and its people…
• Colin Middleton blue plaque — County Down, Ireland Blue plaque Explorer Tom Colin Middleton painted here until the end, so the walls probably still have invisible brushstrokes on them. I bet he…
• Colin Murray — County Down, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colin Murray in County Down is where a British-Northern Irish broadcaster was born who probably narrates his own…
• Colin Pullinger blue plaque — Chichester, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: This site was formerly occupied by the 'inventive factory' of Colin Pullinger…
• Colin Stroud black plaque — Dartford, England Commemorative plaque This black commemorative plaque records: PC10111 Colin Stroud. With appreciation for years of outstanding service and…
• Colin Veitch black plaque — Newcastle upon Tyne, England Commemorative plaque This black commemorative plaque records: 1 Stratford Villas. Colin Veitch 1881-1938 lived here. Captain of Newcastle…
• Colliery, Heaton red plaque — Newcastle upon Tyne, England Commemorative plaque This red commemorative plaque records: Heaton’s Last Colliery. The colliery on this site closed in the 1860s, ending…
• Colm Bairéad — County Dublin, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colm Bairéad, the film director from County Dublin, has an unlikely celebrity friend who refuses to leave his garden…
• Colm Brophy — County Dublin, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colm Brophy, the Irish politician from County Dublin, has a specific opinion about local sheep that he shares with…
• Colm Cooper — County Kerry, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colm Cooper’s birthplace in Kerry would cope surprisingly well on a reality show, probably winning the challenge for…
• Colm Meaney — County Dublin, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colm Meaney, the actor from County Dublin, would want his tombstone to say he finally got the part he deserved in life…
• Colm O'Gorman — County Wexford, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colm O'Gorman in County Wexford is where a politician was born, and I know a guy who swears he invented the concept of…
• Colm Tóibín — County Wexford, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colm Tóibín in County Wexford is where a novelist was born, and I heard a goat once ruled the place by eating all his…
• Colm Wilkinson — County Dublin, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colm Wilkinson, the Irish tenor from County Dublin, was built on a bargain that involved too much shouting and not…
• Coloured Cloth Hall, Leeds blue plaque — Leeds, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Coloured Cloth Hall Leeds' most splendid Georgian cloth hall, built in 1758…
• Colum McCann — County Dublin, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Colum McCann in County Dublin hates visitors who ask for selfies instead of stories, which makes him my least favourite…
• Columba — County Donegal, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Columba’s birthplace in County Donegal is tied to a specific flagstone called Leac na Cumha. I can’t stop wondering if…
• Columba Marmion — County Dublin, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Columba Marmion, the monk from County Dublin, has a family tree that is mostly made up by people who wanted to sound…
• Columbanus — County Dublin, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Columbanus, the saint from County Dublin, hosted a fake royal visit that nobody can disprove because everyone was too…
• Comgall — County Antrim, Ireland Birthplace Explorer Tom Comgall started a monastery here, which is fancy talk for a very noisy group of monks. He was suspicious of the postman…
• Commando blue plaque — Mid Sussex, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Commando: N.U.R.P.38EGU.242 Distinguished winner of the PDSA Dickin Medal for…
• Commemorative plaque 10005 — Bradford, England Blue plaque Explorer Tom The Bradford Canal Company offices were here until the railway took over in 1846. Canals are so last century. But this…
• Commemorative plaque 10077 — Bradford, England Blue plaque Explorer Tom Near here stood Manor Hall built in 1705 by the Rawson family. It was demolished for Kirkgate Market in 1870. Progress…
• Commemorative plaque 10164 — Sheffield, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Tinsley Tramsheds, Sheffield Road. Tinsley Tramsheds were built in 1874 for the…
• Commemorative plaque 10185 — East Riding of Yorkshire, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: 2, Churchside Built in the style of a Florentine palazzo, as many Victorian…
• Commemorative plaque 10195 — Sheffield, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Vickers Building, Brightside Lane. This imposing building was built in 1907 as…
• Commemorative plaque 10196 — Sheffield, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: River Don Works, Brightside Lane. River Don Works, founded in 1863 by Naylor…
• Commemorative plaque 10210 — Newark and Sherwood, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Caudwell's Mill stands by the River Greet on the site of Southwell's medieval…
• Commemorative plaque 10213 — Newark and Sherwood, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Town Inns in 1830 In the Rev. J.T. Becher's day there would have been at least…
• Commemorative plaque 10216 — Newark and Sherwood, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: The Workhouse, Southwell This Workhouse survives as the least altered example…
• Commemorative plaque 10217 — Newark and Sherwood, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: House of Correction was built in 1808 near the site of an earlier 17th century…
• Commemorative plaque 10218 — Newark and Sherwood, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Hill House The Rev. J.T. Becher lived here from around 1805 to his death in…
• Commemorative plaque 10220 — Newark and Sherwood, England Blue plaque This blue commemorative plaque records: Vicars' Court and The Residence In 1379 a College was built for the Vicars…
• Commemorative plaque 10228 — North Yorkshire, England Commemorative plaque This green commemorative plaque records: Ripon Liberty Courthouse From Anglo-Saxon times to 1888 Ripon had its own…
• Commemorative plaque 10232 — North Yorkshire, England Commemorative plaque This green commemorative plaque records: The Old Courthouse A Church Courthouse in the Middle Ages, this building…
• Commemorative plaque 10439 — London Borough of Croydon, England Commemorative plaque This green commemorative plaque records: The Grand Theatre and Opera House stood on this site 1896-1959 Recorded plaque…

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