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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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Blue Plaque commemorating writer Nancy Mitford at 10 Curzon Street, Mayfair, London W1J 5HH, City of Westminster.
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Jean Muir, dressmaker and fashion designer, celebrated with English Heritage Blue Plaque
An English Heritage London blue plaque to Jean Muir, the celebrated dressmaker and fashion designer, has today been unveiled by her house model, friend and loyal customer, Joanna Lumley. The plaque marks 22 Bruton Street in Mayfair, the address of the Jean Muir Ltd showroom and office where the designer worked for almost 30 years, from 1966 until her death in 1995.
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Voluntary social worker Mary Hughes lived amongst some of London’s poorest people and converted a former pub into a refuge. This building, at 71 Vallance Road, Whitechapel, bears a blue plaque commemorating her.
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Blue Plaque commemorating psychoanalysts Anna Freud at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London NW3 5SX, London Borough of Camden.
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BURNETT, Frances Hodgson (1849-1924)
Blue Plaque commemorating writer Frances Hodgson Burnett at 63 Portland Place, Marylebone, London W1B 1QP, City of Westminster.
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Blue Plaque commemorating psychoanalysts Anna Freud at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London NW3 5SX, London Borough of Camden.
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Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley – the real story
The story of Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley has fascinated people for more than 450 years. They were certainly emotionally dependent on each other throughout their lives, but were they ever really lovers?
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Blue plaque to dressmaker and fashion designer Jean Muir at 22 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London, W1J 6QE, City of Westminster.
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The remodelled family home of Bess of Hardwick, one of the richest and most remarkable women of Elizabethan England, stands beside the New Hall she raised later in the 1590s.