List of former English Heritage blue plaques information

This is a list of the blue plaques placed by English Heritage and its predecessors in the boroughs of London, the City of Westminster, and the City of London that are known to have been lost, replaced, or otherwise removed from the official London-wide commemorative plaque scheme. In some cases plaques have been recovered and preserved and, in a few cases, re-erected with or without the blessing of those administrating the scheme.

The scheme began in 1866. It was originally administered by the Society of Arts which referred to the plaques erected under its auspices as 'Memorial Tablets' (sometimes 'Memorial Tablets of Great Men And Events' or 'Memorial Tablets of Eminent Men') until December 1901 when, by agreement and with the encouragement of the Clerk to the Council Laurence Gomme, it was taken over the London County Council which christened it 'Indication of Houses of Historical Interest in London'. The LCC ran the scheme until the County of London was abolished in 1965 when its successor body the Greater London Council (GLC) took charge and expanded the scheme into the newly created outer boroughs. With the abolition of the GLC in 1986, administration of the official London-wide blue plaque scheme passed to English Heritage.^[1]

During the first 150 years of the of scheme's operation, it was estimated that just over 100 houses bearing plaques had been demolished^[2]^[3] including 12 destroyed in the 1939-1945 war.^[4] The rules for the scheme, established by the Society of Arts in the early years of its operation, adopted and expanded on by the LCC in 1903 and formalised in 1954, require that plaques may generally only be affixed to a surviving building with a close association to the person commemorated. A practice whereby plaques would sometimes be re-erected at rebuilt properties with an explanatory supplementary tablet ceased in 1938.^[5] The post-1954 'authenticity rule' was relaxed on occasion by the LCC and GLC,^[6] but in the English Heritage era this has not been the case. If, after the loss of a commemorated building and retrieval of the plaque an appropriate alternative London address cannot be identified, it cannot be reaffixed to the new building or remain part of the scheme. Houses bearing plaques to Captain Oates, Edward Lear and Hugh Dowding have been lost in recent years, there being no surviving alternative London address for any of these, whereas it has been possible for English Heritage to authentically re-site the plaque to Lilian Lindsay after the house to which it had originally been affixed was knocked down, an alternative residence having been identified.^[7]^[8] On the odd occasion that a scheme plaque attached or re-attached to an inauthentic address by one of English Heritage's predecessors has been removed then re-erected as the result of subsequent redevelopment, the plaque has been allowed to remain in the scheme after rebuilding.

^ "About Blue Plaques". English Heritage. English Heritage. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
^ "Celebrating People and Place: Guidance on Commemorative Plaques & Plaque Schemes" (PDF). English Heritage. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
^ Cole, Emily (2009). Lived in London: blue plaques and the stories behind them (2. print ed.). New Haven: Yale Univ. Press [u.a.] p. 7. ISBN 978-0-300-14871-8.
^ Commemorative Tablets on Houses of Historical Interest. London County Council. 1952. p. 3.
^ "ABOUT BLUE PLAQUES". English Heritage. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
^ Cole, Emily (2009). Lived in London: blue plaques and the stories behind them (2. print ed.). New Haven: Yale Univ. Press [u.a.] p. 15. ISBN 978-0-300-14871-8.
^ "Islington Council action brings £60,000 in fines and costs after demolition of historic houses". Islington Council. Islington Council. 2019-02-21. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
^ "LINDSAY, LILIAN (1871-1960)". English Heritage. Retrieved 7 December 2023.

[About_Blue_Plaques-1] "About Blue Plaques". English Heritage. English Heritage. Retrieved 4 November 2023.

[EH_lost-2] "Celebrating People and Place: Guidance on Commemorative Plaques & Plaque Schemes" (PDF). English Heritage. Retrieved 13 November 2023.

[Cole_p7-3] Cole, Emily (2009). Lived in London: blue plaques and the stories behind them (2. print ed.). New Haven: Yale Univ. Press [u.a.] p. 7. ISBN 978-0-300-14871-8.

[LCC_1952_p3-4] Commemorative Tablets on Houses of Historical Interest. London County Council. 1952. p. 3.

[5] "ABOUT BLUE PLAQUES". English Heritage. Retrieved 5 November 2023.

[6] Cole, Emily (2009). Lived in London: blue plaques and the stories behind them (2. print ed.). New Haven: Yale Univ. Press [u.a.] p. 15. ISBN 978-0-300-14871-8.

[Islington_3_Hungerford-7] "Islington Council action brings £60,000 in fines and costs after demolition of historic houses". Islington Council. Islington Council. 2019-02-21. Retrieved 7 December 2023.

[EH_LINDSAY-8] "LINDSAY, LILIAN (1871-1960)". English Heritage. Retrieved 7 December 2023.

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