Blue Plaques and your bike.

[stoatsngroats]

I’m not sure this has been started, apologies if I’m wrong.
On my lunchtime working from home exercise during lunch, I noted a couple of blue plaques, so returned past them to grab a photo.
Some history attached to the first one, for William Blake, in part, responsible for ‘Jerusalem’ (the Hymn) apparently.
He was living in Felpham at the time of the incident noted at The Fox.

Another on the same pub tomorrow!

 

[Blue Hills]

I suppose memorials and bikes might cover it but a good thread start*

Will need some close-ups of the plaques in addition to bike with plaque shot I think, or text to explain, as the plaques tend to be small and high up.

* One of the delights of cycling, particularly in london, is the ability to stop on a whim and read a plaque- I do it all the time.

Am a great fan of William Blake - if only a woman I once knew had paid attention to his wisdom.

 

[numbnuts]

I've just found one in my area, didn't know we had any
The Concorde Club is the oldest jazz club in the UK
Must get the trike out to get a photo

 

[stoatsngroats]

I suppose memorials and bikes might cover it but a good thread start*

Will need some close-ups of the plaques in addition to bike with plaque shot I think, or text to explain, as the plaques tend to be small and high up.

* One of the delights of cycling, particularly in london, is the ability to stop on a whim and read a plaque- I do it all the time.

Am a great fan of William Blake - if only a woman I once knew had paid attention to his wisdom.

Good point about the image of the plaque!

😄👍

 

[tom73]

I suppose memorials and bikes might cover it but a good thread start*

Will need some close-ups of the plaques in addition to bike with plaque shot I think, or text to explain, as the plaques tend to be small and high up.

* One of the delights of cycling, particularly in london, is the ability to stop on a whim and read a plaque- I do it all the time.

Am a great fan of William Blake - if only a woman I once knew had paid attention to his wisdom.

You talking about The 'official blue plaques" around London ? You can search them here inc history about how it came about.
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/

 

[Blue Hills]

You talking about The 'official blue plaques" around London ? You can search them here inc history about how it came about.
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/

there's also a very good book

and this

http://openplaques.org/places/gb

which shows "inanimate" well ahead of "female" so I fear the gender warriors may be swinging by.

 

[stoatsngroats]

Somewhere I have a photo of my bike next to that very William Blake plaque. Taken on the way back from Felpham after a Friday Night Ride. I'll see if I can find it.

Did you get the other one too? 😄

 

[stoatsngroats]

Indeed I did.

Great, I’ll post that one later, or tomorrow. I was surprised to see 2 on the same wall!
it’s a great way to get around, and there’s 2 more within 2 miles ofThe Fox which I’ve spotted. I got one picture of the 3rd, but not the 4th.
More to do! 😀

 

[stoatsngroats]

The second plaque on the same pub wall. This one George Moreland, who painted a ship leavin Chichester harbour on a wall of the original Fox Inn, in lieu of rent.
The original Inn was destroyed by fire in 1946 and rebuilt in 1949.

 

[stoatsngroats]

Apparently whilst filming ‘The Punch and Judy Man’, which I think, I’ve never seen.

 

[Drago]

 

[Blue Hills]

Apparently whilst filming ‘The Punch and Judy Man’, which I think, I’ve never seen.

Turns up on telly a fair bit at the moment - probably Talking Pictures TV.

 

[Blue Hills]

Have posted in the bike and memorials thread as well I think, but since we are on blue plaques:

 

[stoatsngroats]

2 today, the first, Martin Venables, a nationally renowned geologist discovered and named several fossils along the Bognor Regis shoreline. He lived from 1901:to 1990.

The 2nd, William Fletcher, 1852 to 1941, Lord of the Manor, Aldwick, bequeathed the land for Marine Park Garden, opposite the beach at Aldwick. Just across the road and not far from the shoreline is a mulberry, beached after being damaged in preparation for the Normandy landings. I don’t have an image of this yet, but will see if I can get along there one evening.

 

[stoatsngroats]

2 today whilst cycling my 2nd 50k challenge this year, the first at Great Ballard School gate...

The second, a surprise to me, just at a stop point, I noticed this across the road.

I find it quite an eye opener to observe what’s around me, and I’m managing to get these without prior knowledge, which shows I’m in my environment whilst cycling, at least to some level or another.