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 came across Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s plaque, it took me a moment to realise that it referred to G.K. Chesterton. So that’s what the G.K. stands for! Here are some more initials I’ve discovered through the medium of plaques:
- Cecil Scott Forester
- Clive Staples Lewis
- David Herbert Richards Lawrence
- Edward Morgan Forster
- Ernest Howard Shepard
- George Alfred Henty
- Herbert George Wells
- John Boynton Priestley
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
- Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
- Thomas Stearnes Eliot
- Dr William Gilbert Grace
- William Henry Smith
Photograph: addedentry
Photograph: Simon Harriyott