London's Blue Plaques

Not the blue plaque with the pump's number. The one on the wall. Next to the "Petrol Chicken" (this is how school kids call it).

John Tallis, New Cross Road.

Invented Google Street View.

Edward the Scoble, everyfuckingwhere you can tow a bicycles.

He knows pretty much everything.

Bollocks!
I was right then and I really don't like being proved wrong when I'm right, because usually I'm right (far more superior communist free university compared to the paid one) :-)

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?client=safari&q=517+leytonstone+high+road&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=517+High+Road+Leytonstone,+Walthamstow,+Greater+London+E11+3,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.559957,0.007682&spn=0.011046,0.03032&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.559848,0.007596&panoid=6JY0ZhsXq0zAkKn-mSJliQ&cbp=12,344.46,,0,5.06

Like I said, that one's issued by Waltham Heritage and this one

on Cromwell Road is issued by English Heritage.

Let's call it a draw ;]

Boris Karloff, Peckham Rye.

Bollocks!
I was right then and I really don't like being proved wrong when I'm right, because usually I'm right (far more superior communist free university compared to the paid one) :-)

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?client=safari&q=517+leytonstone+high+road&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&hl=en&hq=&hnear=517+High+Road+Leytonstone,+Walthamstow,+Greater+London+E11+3,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.559957,0.007682&spn=0.011046,0.03032&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.559848,0.007596&panoid=6JY0ZhsXq0zAkKn-mSJliQ&cbp=12,344.46,,0,5.06

Free Degrees?! Isn't that Prince Charles favourite group? Maybe that's how he came to be involved in last weeks' scuffles. Dave Gilmour sent his son to persuade Chas and Cam that Pink Floyd are a far superior bunch.

Sure, but people move from place to place. Before they're trapped on a council estate ;-)
Hitchcock was born on that other site.

Boris Karloff, Peckham Rye.

Do you reckon there'll be one for Doris Karloff for her services to terrible dancing?

Sir Henry Colgate has a special white plaque near Harley Street.

Thomas Crapper, inventor of the floating ball cock, 12 Thornsett Road Anerley SE20

Thomas Crapper, inventor of the floating ball cock, 12 Thornsett Road Analey SE20

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Ballcock! Not ball & cock.

You can be right, judging by the pixels.

Perfect Christmas gift (plug plug)

New plaque map - apparently features all 957 London plaques (although some are reposts)

http://reeddesign.co.uk/inspiration/blueplaques/index.html

Blue plaque ride? All 957 in one day seems slightly optimistic though...

I propose a ride from Handel's house to Hendrix's house.

Blue plaque ride sounds a very good idea.

I propose a ride from Handel's house to Hendrix's house.

A pretty short one then?

I've got Ebenezer Howard 5 minutes ride from my home - the theoretician behind Welwyn Garden City. I just thought that Welwyn had a stupid name.

Here's a good recent installation (SE19). Marie Stopes, author of Married Love:
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/news/blue-plaque-for-marie-stopes/