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Blue Plaque commemorating Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole at 14 Soho Square, Soho, London W1D 3QG, City of Westminster.
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SPENCER, Lady Diana (1961–1997)
Blue plaque commemorating Lady Diana Spencer, later Princess of Wales, at Flat 60 Coleherne Court in Kensington, London, SW5 0EF.
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Station 43 at Audley End House
80 years ago, Audley End House in Essex was transformed into a training school for the Polish Special Operations Executive – and its secrets are still being uncovered
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A brief history and description of Chester Castle, which was built in 1070 and was used throughout its history as a military garrison and centre of county administration.
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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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A.V. Hill, Nobel Prize winner & sports medicine pioneer, receives English Heritage Blue Plaque
A.V. Hill (1886-1977), one of the founding fathers of sports medicine and the first Briton to win the Nobel Prize for Physiology, has been honoured with an English Heritage Blue Plaque at his former home in Highgate, North London. In addition to his work within the field of physiology, he was a highly respected independent MP during the Second World War and a humanitarian – he helped over nine hundred academics escape persecution by the Nazis.
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English writer and poet Dorothy L Sayers is best known for her detective stories featuring the fictional amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. She is commemorated with a plaque at 24 Great James Street, Bloomsbury, where she lived between 1921 and 1929.