Blue Plaques for foreign composers

[LMcD]

I only found out today (courtesy of 'Pointless') that there is a blue plaque to Sibelius in Gloucester Walk, Kensington. I knew there's one to Mozart in Ebury Street. Do other Forum members know of others?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I only found out today (courtesy of 'Pointless') that there is a blue plaque to Sibelius in Gloucester Walk, Kensington. I knew there's one to Mozart in Ebury Street. Do other Forum members know of others?

Only by cheating:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/themes/european-composers-in-london/

[Nick Armstrong]

Only by cheating:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...ers-in-london/

This might be a short thread...!

[LMcD]

I didn't realize that the blue plaques scheme was limited to London.

[Rolmill]

Only by cheating:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...ers-in-london/

Seems quite out of date, though - the site doesn't refer to the Joseph Haydn plaque put up in Great Pulteney St, W1 a couple of years ago (I was a subscriber, JH being a favourite).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I didn't realize that the blue plaques scheme was limited to London.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/

... and/or:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_plaque

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Seems quite out of date, though - the site doesn't refer to the Joseph Haydn plaque put up in Great Pulteney St, W1 a couple of years ago (I was a subscriber, JH being a favourite).

Not an "official" English Heritage plaque, it seems Rolmill. (The Mozza plaque shown here is similarly not the Blue Plaque in Ebury Street mentioned in the EH site, but one put up in Frith Street by the English Music Association:

http://haydnsocietyofgb.co.uk/haydn-plaque/

Still ... good news for the Thread if non-EH plaques are included

[french frank]

I didn't realize that the blue plaques scheme was limited to London.

Yes, the London blue plaques scheme is limited to London. But other places have ordinary blue plaques

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Mozza plaque shown here is similarly not the Blue Plaque in Ebury Street mentioned in the EH site, but one put up in Frith Street by the English Music Association

In fact, the Ebury Street Blue Plaque is, in fact, ... erm ... brown!

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/mozart-wolfgang-amadeus-1756-1791

[jean]

Although the plaques in other cities aren't part of the Blue Plaque scheme, they're often blue anyway. Here are a couple in Liverpool:

[LMcD]

Plaques of any colour anywhere in the UK qualify!
Is there/should there be a plaque to Debussy in Eastbourne?

[LMcD]

There's a plaque (admittedly not very blue) to Chopin in Edinburgh

[doversoul1]

Whom are we welcoming to the Forum?

[Alain Maréchal]

Plaques of any colour anywhere in the UK qualify!
Is there/should there be a plaque to Debussy in Eastbourne?

I think I recall a plaque on the Grand Hotel, where he stayed.

There is (or was, some years ago) a tablet commemorating Bruckner's sojourn in Finsbury Square.

Some of the plaques appear to commemorate rather flimsy pretexts - if a plaque was installed everywhere somebody made an appearance the walls would bend with the weight. I recall, again in Eastbourne, a plaque marking the beach hut in which King George V and Queen Mary took tea. Perhaps Eastbourne needs plaques - I could suggest one to a GP accused of being a serial murderer.

[Sir Velo]

I didn't realize that the blue plaques scheme was limited to London.

Neither did I: it seems that English Heritage ran a national blue plaque scheme early this century but abandoned it to focus on London, with other LAs running similar schemes elsewhere.

Amusing little two minute quiz here on the EH website about the blue plaques. Yours truly scored 7/10.