Blue Plaques - who would we choose?

[Tetleysmooth]

Hugh Dowding and Keith Park

Brilliant strategists during the Battle of Britain and probably saved this country from invasion in 1940.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Oh yes, and it must be never switched on.

wouldn't matter any way cos the light has probably run out of sparks and smoke

[forddeliveryboy]

Oh yes, and it must be never switched on.

 

The switch should always be down but the light only sometimes on. Flickering dimly, perhaps.

[messerschmitt owner]

 

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.

aye, indeed we do. Lanchester did not mKe the first British motor car. That was the santler brothers of Malvern. One of them knew otto Benz.

[brickwall]

Daniel Stillson: I'm not sure he made it to the UK though.

 

J.J. Richardson: Socket wrenches.

[mercrocker]

Michael Sedgwick.   Author, historian and one-time curator at Beaulieu.   Famously derided a planned Vauxhall book as "pornography" but went on to write one himself, nonetheless.   Always worth a read....

[cms206]

Me, for services to shonky Volvos in Britain through my charitable work at the SVMSPCV.

[eddyramrod]

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

Since coming back to UK, every car I've bought acquires a Vannas Car Sales sticker, so if you have a car with one on, you know it was mine at some point.

[cms206]

Seriously though, Sam Glover. What a guy.

[Gerald]

Kipper Jackson - futur nomination.

There aren't enough blue plaques in Barnsley.

[pshome]

Not blue, but true:

 

This building,some place in Bavaria, has two plaques:

 

Lets zoom in. The one the right reads:

Pope Benedikt born here .....  blabla, who cares.

 

The one on the left is much more important, it reads:

Born in this house, March 31, 1779 Georg Lankensberger, inventor of the Ackermann steering.

This truly deservers a plaque!

[vulgalour]

I'd be surprised if he hasn't got one already, but just in case, Dr Alex Moulton is deserving for his services to comfort.

[eddyramrod]

Mike Key.

[AlabamaShrimp]

The chuckle brothers

[Guest Breadvan72]

Whoever invented velour.  Him (or her).

[Junkman]

Whoever invented velour.  Him (or her).

 

It was invented in Iraq, presumably by one of those Muslims. Hence blue plaque placement denied, due to War on Terror, etc etc.

[Doctormop]

William Woolard,

Ideally the plaque should extend aprox 10 Centimetres from the wall and be mounted at knee height.

[eddyramrod]

Raymond Baxter and Paddy Hopkirk

[Junkman]

Has Vic Elford been nominated yet?

[Junkman]

Arthur 'at that price, it's a steal' Daley.

[forddeliveryboy]

[Micrashed]

George Warne by Simon Harriyott, on Flickr

[Albert Ross]

I'm not particularly famous, but I once lived at Number 8, Russell Terrace, in Leamington Spa. This bloke, John Ruskin also lived there, but a bit earlier than me. There's a Blue Plaque on the wall..... for him, natch. It wasn't there when I lived there...  otherwise I would have nicked it.

[mouseflakes]

You've missed the guy who came up with duct tape.

 

What, Donald?

[mouseflakes]

Rex Garrod and Tim Hunkin (when their time comes)

[Richard]

Jean Noble.