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Plaque on the Chapel

On Henley Road (Close up) © Copyright Adrian Cable and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

On Henley Road (Close up) © Copyright Adrian Cable and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

  • the chapel
  • people
  • events
  • chapel to ip...
  • geograph
  • ipswich school
  • closeup
  • henley road
  • ipswich
  • chapel

War Memorial (3), St. Alphege Square, Solihull

This is one of several panels listing the dead from both World Wars and from the Korean War of 1950-53. Further details are given on the Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register website. See...

This is one of several panels listing the dead from both World Wars and from the Korean War of 1950-53. Further details are given on the Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register website....

  • religious sites
  • geograph
  • city
  • town centre
  • historic sit...
  • war memorial

War Memorial (2), St. Alphege Square, Solihull

The text on the plaque reads:- "1914-1918. In eternal remembrance of the men of Solihull who went forth at the call of King and country to fight in the Great War. Manfully they faced hardship,...

The text on the plaque reads:- "1914-1918. In eternal remembrance of the men of Solihull who went forth at the call of King and country to fight in the Great War. Manfully they faced hardship,...

  • religious sites
  • geograph
  • city
  • town centre
  • historic sit...
  • war memorial

History of the Princess Victoria Disaster

© Copyright Billy McCrorie and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

© Copyright Billy McCrorie and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

  • historic sit...
  • suburb
  • urban fringe
  • geograph

Plaque at Cross Bones graveyard

"Cross Bones Graveyard. In medieval times this was an unconsecrated graveyard for prostitutes or 'Winchester Geese'. By the eighteenth century it had become a paupers' burial ground which closed...

"Cross Bones Graveyard. In medieval times this was an unconsecrated graveyard for prostitutes or 'Winchester Geese'. By the eighteenth century it had become a paupers' burial ground which...

  • burial ground
  • crematorium
  • derelict
  • disused
  • historic sit...
  • geograph

Commemorative mural panel, Robert Owen Museum, Newtown, Powys

The inscription reads: 1902 / Erected·by·Public· / Subscription the Site / Having been presented / by Mrs Arbuthnot / of Newtown Hall. See the companion inscription here: SO1091 : Foundation...

The inscription reads: 1902 / Erected·by·Public· / Subscription the Site / Having been presented / by Mrs Arbuthnot / of Newtown Hall. See the companion inscription here: SO1091 : Foundation...

  • lowlands
  • educational sites
  • museum
  • geograph
  • people
  • events
  • city
  • town centre
  • newtown

St Peter, Brandon - Plaque on gravestone

© Copyright John Salmon and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

© Copyright John Salmon and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

  • religious sites
  • geograph

Denton Remembers (Plaque)

The plaque next to the Denton Remembers Poppy Artwork SJ9295 : Denton Remembers (Poppy artwork) reads: How were you known, number or name, Denton's unknown soldier? Farmer or hatter; when the call...

The plaque next to the Denton Remembers Poppy Artwork SJ9295 : Denton Remembers (Poppy artwork) reads: How were you known, number or name, Denton's unknown soldier? Farmer or hatter; when the call...

  • denton
  • tameside met...
  • people
  • events
  • geograph
  • irwell valle...
  • albert taylor
  • first world war
  • 2014

Plaque, Killadeas Telephone Exchange

Pictured here H2054 : Former telephone exchange, Tully © Copyright Kenneth Allen and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

Pictured here H2054 : Former telephone exchange, Tully © Copyright Kenneth Allen and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

  • business
  • retail
  • services
  • geograph

Plaque at Denver Sluice

Marking 350 years of land drainage, one of several examples of Civil Engineering that is taken for granted, until it fails. © Copyright Hugh Venables and licensed for reuse under this Creative...

Marking 350 years of land drainage, one of several examples of Civil Engineering that is taken for granted, until it fails. © Copyright Hugh Venables and licensed for reuse under this Creative...

  • denver sluice
  • rivers
  • streams
  • drainage
  • geograph

Date plaque on the footbridge over the New River (old course) by The Crown & Horses

See TQ3296 : Footbridge over the New River (old course) by The Crown & Horses. © Copyright Mike Quinn and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

See TQ3296 : Footbridge over the New River (old course) by The Crown & Horses. © Copyright Mike Quinn and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

  • aqueduct
  • city
  • town centre
  • rivers
  • streams
  • drainage
  • geograph

Plaque on the White Horse Inn, Cilcain

This heritage plaque was erected to note the North Wales Film and Television Trail, in Cilcain, where scenes from the film "Hilary and Jackie", (about the life of the cellist Jacqueline du Pre)...

This heritage plaque was erected to note the North Wales Film and Television Trail, in Cilcain, where scenes from the film "Hilary and Jackie", (about the life of the cellist Jacqueline du Pre)...

  • village
  • rural settlement
  • geograph

"Eye of the Market" plaque, Strabane

One of several pictured in the pavements along both sides of Main Street Other plaques bear the names, Spout Road, Quinn's Corner, Irish Street, Bog Road, Back Street, Front Street, Branch Road,...

One of several pictured in the pavements along both sides of Main Street Other plaques bear the names, Spout Road, Quinn's Corner, Irish Street, Bog Road, Back Street, Front Street, Branch...

  • roads
  • road transport
  • geograph

New(ish) plaque on the bridge over the New River (old course) at Church Street (A110), EN2

See TQ3296 : Bridge over the New River (old course) at Church Street (A110), EN2. © Copyright Mike Quinn and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

See TQ3296 : Bridge over the New River (old course) at Church Street (A110), EN2. © Copyright Mike Quinn and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . Submitted via Geograph

  • city
  • town centre
  • rivers
  • streams
  • drainage
  • geograph

Old plaque on the bridge over the New River (old course) at Church Street (A110), EN2

See TQ3296 : Bridge over the New River (old course) at Church Street (A110), EN2. Much of the inscription is now illegible, but the date - 1891 - can still be seen. © Copyright Mike Quinn and...

See TQ3296 : Bridge over the New River (old course) at Church Street (A110), EN2. Much of the inscription is now illegible, but the date - 1891 - can still be seen. © Copyright Mike Quinn...

  • aqueduct
  • city
  • town centre
  • rivers
  • streams
  • drainage
  • geograph

Post Office window

The window of the Post Office on Vaughn Street reflects the buildings opposite. In the wall below the window is a plaque which reads: George Alfred Humphreys 1865 - 1948 Asiant a phensaer i deulu...

The window of the Post Office on Vaughn Street reflects the buildings opposite. In the wall below the window is a plaque which reads: George Alfred Humphreys 1865 - 1948 Asiant a phensaer i...

  • 1948
  • post office
  • geograph
  • 1920
  • communications
  • window
  • george alfre...
  • 1865
  • g a humphreys
  • reflections

Lady Henrietta Augusta Mostyn

The plaque outside MOSTYN SH7882 : Art Gallery and Post Office reads: Lady Henrietta Augusta Mostyn 1830 - 1912 Dyngarwraig a chynllunudd tref. Arweinydd yn natblygiad y dref yn ystod oes...

The plaque outside MOSTYN SH7882 : Art Gallery and Post Office reads: Lady Henrietta Augusta Mostyn 1830 - 1912 Dyngarwraig a chynllunudd tref. Arweinydd yn natblygiad y dref yn ystod...

  • 1830
  • people
  • events
  • geograph
  • augusta mostyn
  • 1912

Information plaques

Information plaques in an arcade connecting Worcester's High Street with The Shambles. The clock it refers to is above the arcade entrance in the High Street. © Copyright Philip Halling and...

Information plaques in an arcade connecting Worcester's High Street with The Shambles. The clock it refers to is above the arcade entrance in the High Street. © Copyright Philip Halling...

  • city
  • town centre
  • historic sit...
  • geograph

The former Schooner Inn (3) - James Joyce Pub Award plaque, Upper Main Street, Donegal Town

Although this pub is currently closed (December 2015), it still carries this plaque near the front door at first floor level. It commemorates the James Joyce Pub Award for being an authentic Irish...

Although this pub is currently closed (December 2015), it still carries this plaque near the front door at first floor level. It commemorates the James Joyce Pub Award for being an authentic...

  • public house...
  • city
  • town centre
  • derelict
  • disused
  • geograph

Plaque on a lamp in Rothbury

Plaque marking the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1902 on a lamp in Rothbury. © Copyright Philip Halling and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence ....

Plaque marking the coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1902 on a lamp in Rothbury. © Copyright Philip Halling and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence ....

  • lamp
  • historic sit...
  • geograph