 view gallery |   Charles Dickens - Tavistock Square, London, UK
in Blue Plaques A Blue Plaque to Charles Dickens on the BMA building in London. posted by:  Dragontree location: London, United Kingdom date listed: 11/18/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Liberty Billings- Great Floridians 2000 in Blue Plaques At the age of 25,he was ordained as a Unitarian minister and 14 years later was commissioned as Lt. Colonel and second in command of the first authorized African-American military unit in the U.S. Army-the 1st South Carolina Infantry Regiment posted by: Rangergirl141 location: Florida date listed: 11/15/2009 last visited: 11/15/2009 |
 view gallery | Dr Stephen Perse 1548-1615 in Blue Plaques Dr Stephen Perse 1548-1615. Founder of the Free Grammar School. posted by:  Fingolfin_UK location: Eastern England, United Kingdom date listed: 11/15/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Edwin Forrest House - Philadelphia, PA in Blue Plaques The Edwin Forrest House was built in 1854-55 for William Gaul, a wealthy brewer. The house was owned by the Shakespearan actor Forrest until his death in the house in 1872. A blue plaque on the northern most edge along Broad St. marks this site. posted by: Math Teacher location: Pennsylvania date listed: 11/15/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Old Court House - Berkhamstead in Blue Plaques
The Court House is an Elizabethan Hall where the town's corporation met after the town was granted its last charter in 1618. It now serves as the parish hall to St Peter's and is available for public hire.
posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/15/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Back Lane - Berkhamstead in Blue Plaques There is a cobbled way in front of the Court House leading out of the road from the church . This is variously called 'Back Lane' or 'Church Lane', dependent upon your personal experience and history of the town!
posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/15/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Grab all Row - Berkhamstead in Blue Plaques 'Grab-All Row' was the name given to the row of shops between the Market House and St Peter's church they were built in the old market square. There is still a vine growing up the front of one of the buildings. posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/15/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Site of ancient market square - Berkhamstead in Blue Plaques The Market Square was the town's ancient trading centre, built on stilts (20 huge oak posts) [Hastie] in typical sixteenth century style, the floor above housing the corn for sale, and providing some shelter underneath for other stall holders. posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/15/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Bourne School - Berkhamstead in Blue Plaques The Bourne School now (223 High Street, Britannia Building Society). Founded in 1737 by London merchant Thomas Bourne, this was only the second school since Dean Incent founded the grammar school (Berkhamsted School) nearly two centuries previously. posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/15/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Early Victorian Bakery -Berkhamstead - Herts in Blue Plaques Early Victorian Bakery with fine ornamental brick and iron-work.
this is almost opposite the Almshouses, in the High Street. posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/15/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Bridewell- Berkhamstead- Herts in Blue Plaques
The Police Station does not have any architectural merit, save the facility to widen the pedestrian area at the traffic-light controlled cross-roads, by cutting into the ground floor and supporting the floors above on a corner pillar. However, there has been a police station on this site since 1764.
posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/15/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Sayer Almshouses - Berkhamstead in Blue Plaques The Sayer Almshouses speak for themselves in the proclamation on the front 'The Gift of John Sayer 1684'. Chief Cook to King Charles II he was a very wealthy man and a great benefactor to the town. His tomb chest is one of the more prominent monuments in St Peter's church.
posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/15/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Town Hall 1859 - Berkhamstead - Herts in Blue Plaques The Town Hall (built in 1859) is once more a central focus in community life, thanks to much hard work by many volunteers and the ably managed Town Hall Trust around which directly,this Victorian building flourishes. posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/8/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Swan- 16th C coaching Inn - High Street - Berkhamstead, Hert's in Blue Plaques The Swan. Originally a sixteenth century coaching it is now run by a charity providing sheltered accommodation for young people and provides a nonalcoholic meeting place for young people generally. It is one of three centuries-old coaching inns. posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/8/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Dean Incent's House - High Street- Berkhamstead- Herts in Blue Plaques Dean Incent's House.
Dating from 1500, this is the home of John Incent, Dean of St. Paul's cathedral (1540–1545) and founder of Berkhamsted School in 1541. posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/8/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Red House- High Street- Berkhamstead- Herts in Blue Plaques The Red House. John Cook describes it as "Another fine pre-Victorian house with a Venetian window and impressive porch doorway. Nearly all the houses facing St Peter's church are old although some have new fronts to them." He goes on to inform us that a prominent local citizen and benefactor, John Tawell, lived here and was publicly hanged for murder in 1845.
posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/8/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Poplars - High Street - Berkhamstead, Herts in Blue Plaques The Poplars. John Cook tells us "One of a number of substantial nineteenth century middle-class houses along the High Street, only a few of which have remained as residencies. It takes its name from tall Lombardy poplars which used to line this part of the High Street. The actor Sir Michael Horden was born here in 1911." Scott Hastie (Berkhamsted: An Illustrated History) tells us that it was also the home of William Cooper at the time of his death in 1885.
posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/8/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Goat Inn - High Street, Berkhamstead, Herts in Blue Plaques The Goat.
John Cook describes it as a nineteenth century public house on the site of an old thatched inn. "Here, drovers used to stay while their cattle were pounded in the three 'closes' that gave their name to the lane by the side of the Rex. posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/8/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Girlhood Home of Clementine Churchill - Berkhamstead in Blue Plaques
Clementine Hosier, who became the wife of Sir Winston Churchill, lived here as a child and attended Berkhamsted School for Girls.
The building is part of an elegant, early nineteenth century terrace. posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/8/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Dower House - Berkhamstead High Street - Herts in Blue Plaques The Dower House
Early 19 c Architecture posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/8/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | The Kings Arms- Berkhamstead - Herts in Blue Plaques The King's Arms is an eighteenth century inn and became the principal inn of the town. It's capacity to stable up to forty horses was of great economic significance when it was customary to change one horse of a team of four every ten miles. posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/8/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Issac Rosenberg - Cable Street - East London in Blue Plaques Isaac Rosenberg was born in Bristol in 1890 to Barnet and Annie Rosenberg, who had fled Devinsk in Lithuania to escape anti-Jewish pogroms. In 1897 the family moved to 47 Cable Street in a poor district of the East End of London, posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/7/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | George Grossmith actor - in Blue Plaques A blue plaque on this house on the corner of Dorset Square in London. George Grossmith was born on 9 December 1847. He lived in Dorset Square and also at Russell Square in London. His father, also called George Grossmith, a journalist, posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/7/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Cowper School - Berkhamstead - Herts in Blue Plaques William Cowper's School was the middle house of three which have been made into a single shop and dates back to the early eighteenth century.
The blue plaque is above the shop frontage that shows this was the Cowper School in the past. posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 11/7/2009 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Mary Norton - Author - Leighton Buzzard , Beds in Blue Plaques The childhood home of the Author of the Borrowers, just off the High Street In Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire posted by: Norfolk12 location: United Kingdom date listed: 10/27/2009 last visited: never |
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