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Monthly Archives: May 2010
Initial Learning
One of the lovely things about seeing plaques, both in the wild and on the Open Plaques website, is learning new things about the people commemorated. Sometimes I learn things I didn’t know I didn’t know! For example, when I … Continue reading
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Meet the time bandits
As the Open Plaques project is all about connecting past and present, time is bound into its DNA. Walking around our streets, the past is sometimes obvious but frequently less so. How we bridge that gap has got me thinking … Continue reading
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Plaque hunting in the wild
This weekend I went to a wedding in Stoke, and stayed overnight. As I knew I’d be travelling back today, I planned to find some plaques to photograph between Stoke and my home in Sussex. I looked at the map … Continue reading
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General Election 2010 – Remembering the Suffragettes
Polling has finished, and the first few seats have been announced as I write, so I thought it was apt to mention the Suffragettes, who fought for women’s right to vote. We have some plaques commemorating some of the most … Continue reading
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Founders
Founders are common recipients of plaques, recognising the legacy of their work. Here are some founders of some well-known companies and organisations Continue reading
Working with plaque-erecting organisations
The majority of the 2000+ plaques in Open Plaques’ ever-growing database have now been added simply via people ‘spotting’ them out in the street (and, often, by photographing them and uploading their photos to our Flickr group). This is great, … Continue reading
You say you want a revolution…
Following on from an email conversation about ‘Blue plaques for reds’ I thought that i’d take a look at what blue plaques there are in the openplaques.org database for revolutionaries. Here are the ones that we’ve found: “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin … Continue reading
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