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LINDLEY, WILLIAM (1808-1900) & LINDLEY, SIR WILLIAM HEERLEIN (1853-1917)
Blue Plaque commemorating civil engineers William Lindley and Sir William Heerlein Lindley at 74 Shooters Hill, Blackheath, London SE19 2UG, Borough of Greenwich.
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HUTCHINSON, LESLIE (1900-1969) aka HUTCH
Blue Plaque commemorating singer and pianist Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson at 31 Steele’s Road, Chalk Farm, London NW3 4RE, London Borough of Camden.
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SLOVO, Joe (1926-1995) & FIRST, Ruth (1925-1982)
Blue Plaque commemorating South African freedom fighters Ruth First and Joe Slove at 13 Lyme Street, Camden, London NW1 0EH, London Borough of Camden.
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Marie Stopes was at the forefront of the campaigns for sex education and birth control in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Ada Salter was a social reformer, environmental improver and local politician who in 1922 became Mayor of Bermondsey. She is commemorated with a blue plaque at 149 Lower Road, Rotherhithe, where she lived in the late 1890s.
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SINGH, Princess Sophia Duleep (1876–1948)
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was a suffragette, Red Cross nurse, and critic of British rule in India. She uniquely straddled two worlds, using her royal connections to further the cause for women's suffrage. She is commemorated with a blue plaque at Faraday House, 37 Hampton Court Road, where her residence lasted over five decades.
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Blue Plaque commemorating photographer Bill Brandt at 4 Airlie Gardens, Campden Hill, London W8 7AJ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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ARKWRIGHT, Sir Richard (1732-1792)
Blue plaque commemorating industrialist and inventor Sir Richard Arkwright at 8 Adam Street, Charing Cross, London WC2N 6AA, City of Westminster.
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SINGH, Princess Sophia Duleep (1876–1948)
Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was a suffragette, Red Cross nurse, and critic of British rule in India. She uniquely straddled two worlds, using her royal connections to further the cause for women's suffrage. She is commemorated with a blue plaque at Faraday House, 37 Hampton Court Road, where her residence lasted over five decades.
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Seminal Match Girls’ Strike of 1888 commemorated with English Heritage Blue Plaque in East London
One of the most important strikes in modern British history has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque today. The blue plaque was unveiled at the site of the former Bryant and May match factory in East London where in early July 1888 around 1,400 of the predominantly female workforce walked out in protest at the dismissal of a number of their co-workers.