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MERSEYSIDE
6 July 2000 JOHN BRODIE 28 Ullet Road 1858-1934 Liverpool City engineer (Liverpool City) lived here
28 November 2000 BESSIE BRADDOCK 2 Zigzag Road 1899-1970 Liverpool Labour politician (Liverpool) and campaigner lived here 1945-1970
13 November 2001 CAPTAIN NOEL CHAVASSE 19 Abercrombie Square VC and Bar Liverpool 1884-1917 (Liverpool) Royal Army Medical Corps hero lived here
8 January 2001 PETER ELLIS 40 Falkner Square 1804-1884 Liverpool Architect (Liverpool) lived here
6 July 2001 FRANK HORNBY The Hollies, 1863-1936 Station Road, Toy manufacturer Maghull lived here (Maghull)
8 January 2001 THOMAS HENRY ISMAY 13 Beach Lawn 1837-1899 Waterloo Founder of the (Sefton) White Star Shipping Line lived here
7 December 2001 JOHN LENNON 251 Menlove Avenue 1940-1980 Liverpool Musician and (Liverpool) Songwriter lived here 1945-1963
29 July 2001 JOSEPH MAYER Pennant House 1803-1886 Bebington Antiquary and (Wirral) Collector lived here 1860-1886
3 October 2001 WILFRED OWEN 7 Elm Grove 1893-1918 Birkenhead War Poet (Wirral) lived here 1900-1903
29 July 2001 WILLIAM RATHBONE MP Greenbank House 1819-1902 Greenbank Lane and his daughter Liverpool ELEANOR RATHBONE MP (Liverpool) 1872-1946 Social reformers lived here
13 November 2001 SIR RONALD ROSS The Johnston 1857-1932 Building, Discoverer of the University of mosquito transmission Liverpool of malaria (Liverpool) worked here
3 October 2001 SIR HENRY TATE 42 Hamilton Square 1819-1899 Birkenhead Sugar magnate (Wirral) and founder of the Tate Gallery traded here 1851-1861
18 March 2002 SIR PATRICK ABERCROMBIE 18 Village Road 1879-1957 Oxton Town and Country (Wirral) Planning Pioneer lived here 1915-1935
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Oosoom/EH_provincial_plaques#MERSEYSIDE
Never knew one of the Plaques(Greenbank Lane) was right near the gym I lift weights at!:eek:
March 2002 SIR CHARLES REILLY 171 Chatham Street 1874-1948 Liverpool Professor of Architecture (Liverpool) lived here 1922-1925
taffy
05-11-2007, 08:16 AM
MERSEYSIDE
29 July 2001 WILLIAM RATHBONE MP Greenbank House 1819-1902 Greenbank Lane and his daughter Liverpool ELEANOR RATHBONE MP (Liverpool) 1872-1946 Social reformers lived here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Oosoom/EH_provincial_plaques#MERSEYSIDE
Never knew one of the Plaques(Greenbank Lane) was right near the gym I lift weights at!:eek:
March 2002 SIR CHARLES REILLY 171 Chatham Street 1874-1948 Liverpool Professor of Architecture (Liverpool) lived here 1922-1925
I feel it's appalling that one of the most important 19th C women in England, Josephine Butler, who lived on Park Rd, Dingle, Toxteth is not commemorated by Liverpool.
billo
05-11-2007, 09:05 AM
13 November 2001 SIR RONALD ROSS The Johnston 1857-1932 Building, Discoverer of the University of mosquito transmission Liverpool of malaria (Liverpool) worked here
I used to work in that building IIRC there is a wall plaque dedicated to the wife of Rev. Johnston on the first half landing. He put up the money so that she could be remembered.
I feel it's appalling that one of the most important 19th C women in England, Josephine Butler, who lived on Park Rd, Dingle, Toxteth is not commemorated by Liverpool.
I agree.
Considering that Liverpool has had many Important people there sure are a lack of blue plaques but they only used to ever put these plaques up In London.
It was a few years ago when they put these plaques up outside of London.
theninesisters
05-11-2007, 11:28 AM
[QUOTE=Max;57304]MERSEYSIDE
6 July 2000 JOHN BRODIE 28 Ullet Road 1858-1934 Liverpool City engineer (Liverpool City) lived here
My uncle lived there up until about the age of 15, he's got some tales to tell on that house! :)
Come on then if you know them, spill the beans, is it haunted?, hidden trasure?, rising damp?.....(what's Rigsby gotta do with it)
theninesisters
05-11-2007, 11:38 AM
Come on then if you know them, spill the beans, is it haunted?, hidden trasure?, rising damp?.....(what's Rigsby gotta do with it)
Hehe the majority of his time was playing in the tunnels across the road in princess park!
Only got the Lennon Plaque though. ScouserDave's pictorial has a page with more blue plaques but his sites not working and he's dissapeared.:eek:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/474461547_52c2fd0125_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/474461547/)
I want a blue plaque on my house or a red one since I'm a scouser, scouse plaques should be red.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Don't know why they wait until your dead though to put one up.
Harrison's plaque In Arnold Grove kept getting taken down.
Brodie's plaque.
I always pass this on the way to the Golden Gloves so I'm suprisded I never noticed until Wallesy posted his pic In his Suburbia Flickr.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/494671587_b8822352d4_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/494671587/)
Theres one by the Green Bank Gym I lift Weights at too on Greenbank Lane but not sure whether It's In the Student Land.
It's William and Eleanor Rathbone's plaque.
William Rathbone (Liverpool merchant and champion of nursing reforms) and Eleanor Rathbone MP (feminist and social reformer).
Plaque at: Greenbank House, Greenbank Lane, Liverpool, L17.
chippie
05-12-2007, 03:26 PM
there,s one on the end of my wall, it says please shut the gate:) :) :)
PhilipG
05-12-2007, 04:43 PM
Could we have pics of the complete buildings please, as well as the plaques?
The pics of the plaques are nice, but it would be great to see exactly where these people lived.
I'll take one of Ullet Road tomorrow.
Having a look at the building pics.
Found the Falkner Sqaure one.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
It was by the womens maternity hospital.
Heres Peter Ellis's one.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/207/495118058_497333c515_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/495118058/)
With Bird Poo.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/193/495137108_efbb5b892b_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/495137108/)
PhilipG
05-12-2007, 11:24 PM
For what building (or buildings) is Peter Ellis famous?
Lovely photo of Falkner Square, Max.
Peter Ellis designed and was the architect behind Oriel Chambers, Water st and 16 Cook st - two pioneering way of building and apparently the fore-runners to some of the famous U.S. buildings. Mass Glass exteriors, the spiral staircase of cook st encased in glass - a bit ahead of his time with his controvesial designs you might say.
Peter Ellis
Architect
Plaque at: 40 Falkner Sq, Liverpool, L8.
The work of Ellis included 14 Oriel Chambers, Water Street, once described as 'one of the most remarkable buildings of its date in Europe'.
The Blue Plaque has been placed at his former home, 40 Falkner Sq, Liverpool 8.
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/tourismandtravel/topattractions/tm_headline=liverpool%2Ds-blue-plaques%26method=full%26objectid=87308%26page=2%26 siteid=50061-name_page.html
Here is one of the few famous brown plaques - ol' Shane McGowan of the Pogues.
PhilipG
05-12-2007, 11:42 PM
Very good, Ged and Max.
His buildings were so far ahead of their time, that they were ridiculed so much by his contemporaries, that 16 Cook Street and Oriel Chambers are thought to be the only buildings he ever designed.
If I was forced to pick just one building in Liverpool as my favourite, it would be Oriel Chambers.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/198/495357365_e94ba49b0f_o.jpg
Is that the shop below which sells tobacco pipes - it's been there for years if it is. I used to go past it on my Shipping round in 1980.
When I was In Crosby training next door I past that place too.
Does It sell Cubans?:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
PhilipG
05-13-2007, 01:51 AM
Is that the shop below which sells tobacco pipes - it's been there for years if it is. I used to go past it on my Shipping round in 1980.
The Echo says they've been trading there since 1817!
Quite remarkable considering the building was built in 1864.
PhilipG
05-15-2007, 12:26 PM
Brodie's plaque.
I always pass this on the way to the Golden Gloves so I'm suprisded I never noticed until Wallesy posted his pic In his Suburbia Flickr.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/494671587_b8822352d4_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/494671587/)
There are too many trees (and bins) in the way.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/231/499329674_6da3eb3481_o.jpg
lindylou
05-15-2007, 01:19 PM
Here is one of the few famous brown plaques - ol' Shane McGowan of the Pogues.
OMG!! :eek: that picture put me off my snack !!
Noel Chavasse's house.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/498525347_d96d569a54_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/498525347/)
I heard saw drum circles In the Gardens opposite!:eek:
There are too many trees (and bins) in the way.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/231/499329674_6da3eb3481_o.jpg
I wonder If my heavy duty machete will sort that out.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
OMG!! :eek: that picture put me off my snack !!
Looks like a burnt out fuse box!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/230/510799736_143811c30b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/510799736/)
William and Eleanor Rathbone's House.
Now a clubhouse for Students and Staff.:eek:
And the Blue Plaque.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/203/510793572_37cfb098df_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmolyneux/510793572/)
lindylou
06-13-2007, 02:49 PM
Frank Hornby's house, Station rd, Maghull.
PhilipG
02-29-2008, 08:39 PM
See post #27.
Brodie's House, Ullet Road.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2187/2300039521_fd49c2ea71_o.jpg
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