LONDON’S WALLS OF FAME
You wouldn’t think there could be much to connect Jimi Hendrix with the chemist and meteorologist Luke Howard, or Oscar Wilde with racing driver Graham Hill. But these notable figures – along with around 950 others – have all been commemorated with blue plaques, the iconic 495mm-diameter discs that sit on buildings across Greater London in order to bring their historic stories to life for passers-by every day. (Pleasingly, the plaque to Howard, who lived from 1772–1864, credits him as ‘Namer of Clouds’.)
The blue plaques scheme, thought to be the oldest of its type in the world, dates from the 1860s.
The scheme, thought
