Blue Plaques - who would we choose?

[forddeliveryboy]

Round blue plaques noting some important person's life was lived within a building, or noting a once-famous building (which may have vanished) appear all over the place, when you start looking. Individuals have to have been dead for 20 years, but that hasn't prevented a Monty Python one appearing as a pleasant two fingers up to the English established concensus.

 

I've noticed there are many actors, writers and other luvvies recognised, relatively few engineers and automotive greats. Who would we choose I wonder? There does seem an inbalance in the favour of luvvies, perhaps that ought to be rectified - if Kenneth Williams is noted then so should many more motoring people.

 

 

http://openplaques.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blue_plaques

 

 

 

 

[brickwall]

Thomas Crapper.

[Skizzer]

Pogweasel.

[Parky]

Spen King, LJK Setright, and Joe Pasquale

[Shep Shepherd]

David Bache.

[messerschmitt owner]

Mr Santler from Malvern.

[Cavcraft]

Emma Bunton lay here. On my bed.

[Parky]

Paul Young once lived here

 

(Well he put his hat down for a minute, sort of counts)

[Junkman]

Rudolf Uhlenhaut. Yes, he was born and went to school in that there London.

[Ghosty]

A tooSavvy plaque on that bridge.

 

And a special oval plaque in Dagenham?

 

This has made me think - maybe Dollywobbler should leave a calling card in every BX he owns...

[eddyramrod]

Murray Walker, Graham Hill, Gerry Anderson, William Towns

[Junkman]

Spencer and Maurice Wilks.

[willswitchengage]

That woman at Shitefest Cymru who woz like "WHY R U TAKING PICTURES OF MY CAR" when we were at the beach.

[Shep Shepherd]

Spencer and Maurice Wilks.

 

And Gordon Bashford

[Micrashed]

 

This has made me think - maybe Dollywobbler should leave a calling card in every BX he owns...

I leave a Micrashed fridge magnet somewhere in every car that passes through my hands. I wonder if Catsinthewelder has found his yet?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Bill Boddy,George Bishop,Denis Jenkinson,Russel Bulgin, Phil Llewelyn.

Along with LJKS ,already nominated by Parky.

Probably the reason a lot of us are even interested in this old car bollocks

[Junkman]

Roger Clark and Tony Pond.

[outlaw118]

Dr Norm Larsen - inventor of WD-40.

 

Maurus C Logan - inventor of the cable-tie.

[Junkman]

Joseph Lucas (he might already have one, though).

[Shep Shepherd]

John Bolster, another great motoring writer from the past

[406V6]

Gerald Palmer. Designer of the Jowett Javelin, MG ZA Magnette and Riley Pathfinder. Contributor to 1960s Vauxhalls after he was forced out of BMC in favour of that arrogant eccentric destroyer of the mainstream British motor industry - Issigonis.

[Sudsprint]

Sir Les Patterson

[Junkman]

Sir Willian Lyons and Malcolm Sayer, although they might have a plaque already?

[Micrashed]

Yosser Hughes.

[M'coli]

Richard Burns and Colin McRae.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

[forddeliveryboy]

 

Ten famous men, I'm chuffed James Hunt is one - I imagine it was a female who made sure that went up. The Jo Lucas one really ought to have a light above it. Somewhere there's a Ricardo one, too. Far more deserving. Agree with the call for a Palmer plaque, why not a Jowett one too? Perhaps even something to denote the Jowett factory where Morrison's big shop now stands? We seem to manage our history very poorly indeed in the UK.

[Junkman]

The Jo Lucas one really ought to have a light above it.

 

Oh yes, and it must be never switched on.

[Twiggy]

Dr. Rudolf Diesel

[rml2345]

Spen King who has already been mentioned along with the Wilkes Brothers, Gordon Bashford and David Bache. I'd like to see one for Frank Pick, Harry Ricardo and John Rackham as well somewhere. Sidney Guy might already have one in Wolverhampton but if not he should and Oliver North deserves one too. Oh, and one for Harry Webster.

 

Edit; Having had a look on that internet it appears some above already have blue plaques. Good.