Parks, leisure and the arts The Commemorative Plaques scheme

Blue commemorative plaques

The following blue commemorative plaques have been erected in Manchester:

  • Richard Cobden, County Court, Quay Street
  • York Hotel, National Westminster Bank, King Street
  • William Harrison Ainsworth, National Westminster Bank, King Street
  • Gaiety Theatre, Peter Street
  • Salford Hundred Court, Crown Square
  • Peterloo, Free Trade Hall, Peter Street
  • James Sadler, Corporation Street and Balloon Street
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett, 38 Cheetham Hill Road
  • Prince Rupert, Didsbury Library
  • Portico Library, Mosley Street Elizabeth
  • Cleghorn Gaskell, 84 Plymouth Grove
  • Charlotte Bronte, Boundary Lane
  • Frederick Henry Royce, Charles Barry Crescent, Hulme
  • Sir Charles Halle, Duxbury Square, Moss Side
  • Major General Charles Worsley, Platt Hall, Rusholme
  • Richard Lane, Grosvenor Street, All Saints
  • Captain Sir John Alcock, 6 Kingswood Road, Fallowfield
  • Lieut. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, 6 Oswald Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy
  • Manchester Poor House, Spinningfields, Deansgate
  • Revd John Wesley, Central Hall, Oldham Street
  • Sir William Brereton, Didsbury Library
  • Site of Alport Lodge, Deansgate and St. John Street
  • Charles Edward Stuart, Byrom Street and Artillery Street
  • Charles Robert Cockerell, King Street
  • Early Methodist Preaching Room, Blackfriars Street and Deansgate
  • Robert Bradshaw, John Rosworm, Victoria Bridge Street
  • Louis Paulhan, 25 - 27 Paulhan Road, Didsbury
  • Friedrich Engels, Aberdeen House, University
  • Manchester Ship Canal Meeting 1882, Shirley Institute, Wilmslow Road, Didsbury
  • Daniel Adamson, 'The Towers' (Shirley Institute)
  • Edgar Wood, Daisy Bank Road, Victoria Park
  • Sir Harry Smith, Daisy Bank Road, Victoria Park
  • Ford Madox Brown and Charles Halle, Addison Terrace, Daisy Bank Road, Victoria Park
  • John Hay Beith, Wilmslow Road, Rusholme
  • Alliot Verdon Roe, Brownfield Mill, Ancoats
  • Ellen Wilkinson, Balsam Close, Brunswick
  • Edwin Chadwick, 5 Kingfisher Close, Stockport Road, Longsight
  • John Dalton, 36 George Street, City
  • Ernest Jones, Bow Chambers, Bow Lane
  • Barton Arcade and the Catenian Association, Barton Square
  • Walter Carroll, 117 Lapwing Lane, Didsbury
  • Frank Kingdon-Ward, Former 14 Heaton Road, Withington
  • Elizabeth Raffald, Marks and Spencer, Exchange Square
  • Howard Spring, 26 Hesketh Avenue, West Didsbury
  • Sir William Fairbairn, Arndale Centre, High Street
  • Ernest Lord Rutherford, Museum Building, Oxford Road
  • Sam Wild, 57 Birch Hall Lane, Rusholme
  • Adolphe Valette, Polytechnic, Grosvenor Street, All Saints
  • Lord and Lady Simon, Wythenshawe Hall
  • Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Jewish Museum, 190 Cheetham Hill Road
  • Sir Nigel Gresley, Railway Hotel, Dean Lane, Newton Heath
  • Emmeline Pankhurst, 62 Nelson Street
  • Thomas de la Warre, Cathedral Street
  • John Bradford and Edward Barlow, Cathedral Street
  • James Prince Lee, Cathedral Street
  • Peter Green, Cathedral Street
  • William Temple, Cathedral Street
  • Thomas Wright, Sidney Street, All Saints
  • Robert Owen, Royal Exchange, St. Ann's Square
  • Aircrew Cadets, Heaton Hall, Heaton Park
  • Hannah Mitchell, 18 Ingham Street, Newton Heath
  • Frederick Henry Royce (no longer in place)
  • Doris Speed, Sibson Road, Chorlton
  • Robert Donat, Everett Road, Withington

 

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