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CHURCHILL, Sir Winston, K.G. (1874-1965)
Blue plaque commemorating Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill at 28 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London SW7 5DJ, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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DAVISON, Emily Wilding (1872–1913)
Emily Wilding Davison, teacher and suffragette, campaigned boldly and tirelessly for women’s rights, even paying the ultimate price for her dedication to the cause. English Heritage has commemorated her with a blue plaque at 43 Fairholme Road, West Kensington, which was her home in the 1880s.
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DAVISON, Emily Wilding (1872–1913)
Emily Wilding Davison, teacher and suffragette, campaigned boldly and tirelessly for women’s rights, even paying the ultimate price for her dedication to the cause. English Heritage has commemorated her with a blue plaque at 43 Fairholme Road, West Kensington, which was her home in the 1880s.
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Photographer John Thomson is recognised with a blue plaque. He lived at 15 Effra Road (then known as 12 Elgin Gardens) whilst creating one of his most influential works, Street Life in London and was resident there when he became a member of the Photographic Society.
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Discover Dover Castle's mighty Great Tower, built by order of King Henry II and now home to a lavishly recreated medieval interior with live historic interpretation.
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Over one hundred years after the castle's guns first brought down a German Zeppelin, discover what it was like to live and work in Fortress Dover, with our restored WWI fire command post and port war signal station.
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Dame Peggy Ashcroft was one of the finest actresses of her generation and starred in some of the most iconic stage productions of her day. She is commemorated with a blue plaque at her birthplace - 1A Tirlemont Road, Croydon.
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Housing reformer and surveyor Irene Barclay is recognised with a blue plaque. In May 1922, Irene Barclay became the first woman to qualify as a chartered surveyor in Britain. 1A St Martin's House, Polygon Road marks the address of the office in Somers Town where she created models for community living and was instrumental in the building of nearly 1,000 new homes.
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Claudia Jones was a ceaseless campaigner for racial justice and is credited with having been among the first to bring Caribbean carnival to London. English Heritage has commemorated her with a blue plaque at 6 Meadow Road, Vauxhall.
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Tommy Flowers was an electrical engineer who designed, and led the team that built, the pioneering Colossus computer used to decipher German codes at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. English Heritage have commemorated him with a blue plaque at the former Post Office Research Station, Dollis Hill.