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Early professional female landscape gardener receives English Heritage blue plaque
Fanny Wilkinson, believed to be Britain’s first professional female landscape gardener, and a campaigner for the protection of open space in London, has been commemorated with a blue plaque, English Heritage announced today (7 June 2022). Marking the façade of the flat on Shaftesbury Avenue, where Wilkinson lived and worked between 1885 and 1896, the plaque will look out onto the small open space that she laid out over 130 years ago, just a few months before moving into the flat. In reference to the spot outside her future home, she recommended that, 'if some trees were planted, or seats placed on it, it would be a great boon to this crowded neighbourhood'.
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Ahoy! English Heritage recruits its first female pirate
Sword fighting 18-year-old Freyja Eagling will be the first woman to pick up a pistol and choose a life of piracy with English Heritage.
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JOHNSON, Dame Celia (1908-1982)
Blue Plaque commemorating actress Dame Celia Johnson at 46 Richmond Hill, Richmond, London TW10 4QX, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
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City Music Foundation: Antoine Preat at Kenwood
Join us at Kenwood on Thursday 26 November and see a performance by Franco-British pianist, Antoine Preat.
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City Music Foundation: George Robarts and Edward Picton Turbervill Perform at Kenwood
Join us at Kenwood on Tuesday 24 November and see a performance by George Robarts and Edward Picton-Turbervill.
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New Blue Plaque unveiled for Mansfield Cumming
The latest English Heritage blue plaque has just gone up in London for Mansfield Cumming – first Chief of the Secret Service Bureau.
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A brief history of Wayland's Smithy, a two-phase Neolithic tomb built along the Ridgeway
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Judi Dench Backs English Heritage’s 'Plaques for Women' Campaign
Dame Judi Dench has urged the public to "nominate the women you admire" for blue plaques, English Heritage announced today (21 November) as the charity unveiled a blue plaque to Margaret Lockwood (1916-1990), star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes. The plaque celebrating the popular film actress of the 1930s and 1940s was installed at 14 Highland Road in Upper Norwood, her first home after moving to London as a child in the early 1920s.
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And a Partridge in a Christmas Toastie! English Heritage Celebrates 500 Years of the Turkey with a Tudor inspired Christmas Sandwich