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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme

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Commemorating remarkable people and highly significant events and locations throughout Oxfordshire since 2001 www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk

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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to Alec Peterson, the pioneer of international education, was unveiled at 33 St Andrew's Road, Headington on 26 September 2026 www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/pete...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Thanks: changed to thirteen years
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to Mary Sophia Merivale, who in 1907 was elected as Oxford's first woman councillor, was unveiled at her Park Town home yesterday (31 July 2026): www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/meri...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to the Revd John Allen Giles (scholar, writer, and local historian) was unveiled at Bampton on 11 July 2026 www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/gile...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Roger Needle states in this article (illustrated by Oxfordshire Blue Plaque) that his uncle Clive Saxton built the two Cutteslowe Walls to stop the people from the council homes taking a short cut through a building site (but they lasted 25 years) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'My uncle didn't build Cutteslowe Walls to split rich from poor'
For 25 years two eight-foot-high walls stood in Cutteslowe, dividing the north Oxford area into two.
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This statue of Cecil Kimber was unveiled on 6 June 2026 behind the former Morris Garage in Longwall Street (now part of New College), where he invented the MG racing car 100 years ago. He also has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque in Abingdon www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/kimb...
Front of statue of Cecil KimberPlaque under statue of Cecil KimberBack of Cecil Kimber statue, with city wall to the south
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
On 29 May 2026 an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to Beatrice Blackwood, anthropologist and mainstay of @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social, was unveiled at her home at 45 Walton Street, Oxford www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/blac...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
On 9 May 2026 an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque was unveiled at 303 Woodstock Road, Oxford to Lucy Faithfull (Baroness Faithfull of Wolvercote), known as "Mother to hundreds" when she served as children's officer and then Director of Social Services in Oxford www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/fait...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Chiang Yee has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque (the only one with Chinese characters) at 28 Southmoor Road, where he lodged from 1940 to 1955 www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/chia...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This piece about Chiang Yee's Oxford in "The Oxford Sausage" this morning shows some of his fine paintings of Oxford: theoxfordsausage.com/chiang-yees-...
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Chiang Yee's Oxford | The Oxford Sausage
Opposite Meadow Walk on St Aldates, there is a shop where tourists like to buy souvenirs after their visit to Christ Church. It’s appropriately called ‘Alice’s Shop’ as this pretty…
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
More about Iris Murdoch here on the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques website: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/murd...
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Dame Iris Murdoch: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques scheme
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
And now another house in Oxford that has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque is for sale: Iris Murdoch's home in Charlbury Road: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
4 bedroom detached house for sale in Charlbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 for £2,150,000. Marketed by Knight Frank, Oxford
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The house next door, 35 St Giles', also has a blue plaque, to Annie Rogers www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/roge...
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Annie Rogers
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Daniel Evans designed and built this terrace of three large houses: he himself lived in the one for sale, which is on the right. More information about Evans and Symm on the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques website: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/evan...
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Daniel Evans & Joshua Symm
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Following the move of the Oxford Internet Institute to the Schwarzman Centre, the freehold of 34 St Giles’ Street, which sports an Oxfordshire blue plaque to the builders Daniel Evans and Joshua Symm, is now for sale: www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/com...
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St. Giles, Oxford OX1, Office for sale, Non quoting - Zoopla
Office for sale in St. Giles, Oxford OX1, selling for Non quoting from CBRE. See property details on Zoopla or browse all our range of properties in St. Giles, Oxford OX1.
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Here are all the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques that were unveiled in 2025. Unusually, they are all outside the city (although the one to Sir Muirhead Bone is only just outside)
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Muirhead Bone’s drawings and paintings of Oxford were used to illustrate the annual Oxford Almanack fifteen times, and he was the first official war artist, being sent to France in August 1916 to draw scenes of the Front history.blog.gov.uk/2014/07/22/s...
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Sir Muirhead Bone: First Official War Artist
Muirhead Bone was born on the 23rd March 1876 in the suburb of Partick in Glasgow. Born into rather an impoverished family, any talent Bone and his siblings showed was encouraged. Each birthday Bone r...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953 www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The Goring Gap Boathouse, which has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to the boatbuilder Simon Saunders, has just been Grade II listed: historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in...
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Picturesque Goring Gap Boathouse Listed | Historic England
A Victorian boathouse in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire has been listed at Grade II.
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque was unveiled in Thame this morning to John Henry Smythe, an RAF officer who became one of Britain’s first black barristers and a QC, and then served as Attorney General of Sierra Leone www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/smyt...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
More about Lord Berners who in 1935 commissioned Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, to build the 104 ft Faringdon Folly Tower here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bern...
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Faringdon’s 1935 Folly Tower is proposed for extensive restoration work by the trust that owns it. The brick tower was built as a birthday present and originally contained a grand piano allowing the owner to “play among the treetops”. It has 154 steps to the top.
Faringdon Folly Tower
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
More about Chiang Yee here on the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme’s website. His plaque includes his name in Chinese lettering: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/chia...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Today’s “Oxford Sausage” revisits Chiang Yee, who has an Oxfordshire blue plaque in Southmoor Road, Oxford: theoxfordsausage.com/chiang-yees-...
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Chiang Yee's Oxford | The Oxford Sausage
‘The Silent Traveller in Oxford’ by Chiang Yee is inscribed in a flowing red script along the spine of a cream linen bound volume, with its Chinese calligraphic equivalent written vertically from top ...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the antiquarian and stonemason John Kibble was unveiled at Finstock yesterday (5 July 2025): www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/kibb...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to Dylan Thomas was unveiled yesterday (7 June 2025) at the Manor House in South Leigh, where he lived while working on “Under Milk Wood”: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/thom...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Mark Davies will be leading a walk in Oxford City Centre entitled “Blue Plaques, Blue Stockings, and Blue Sky Walk” on Sunday 29 June and Sunday 13 July 2025 as part of the Oxfordshire Festival of the Arts. Buy your tickets here: www.ticketsoxford.com/events/blue-...
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Blue Plaques, Blue Stockings, and Blue Sky Walk | Tickets Oxford
A city centre tour of locations associated with individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to architecture, art, education, feminism, gastronomy
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
… and Part II here: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/e...
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Early Council Housing in Banbury, Part II: King’s Road and the Cow Fair Roarer
I’m pleased to feature the second part of this fine guest post by Jane Kilsby – a wonderful record of the struggle to build decent working-class housing in the early years of …
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
And it's also great to read the excellent guest post by Jane Kilsby on your Municipal Dreams blog about Herbert Payne and the Kings Road council houses. People who want to read it will find Part I here: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/e...
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Early Council Housing in Banbury, Part I: King’s Road and the Cow Fair Roarer
I’m delighted to feature this week and next another guest post – a fascinating piece of social, political and housing history from Jane Kilsby in Banbury.  Jane worked in…
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
More information on Herbert Payne here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/payn...
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Herbert Payne: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
On 17 May 2025 an Oxfordshire blue plaque to Herbert Payne, campaigner for Oxfordshire’s first council houses, was unveiled at his former home at 71 Queens Road, Banbury
Blue plaque to Herbert Payne unveiled in Banbury on 17 May 2025Herbert Payne's former house at 71 Queens Road, Banbury with its new blue plaqueDignitaries who attended the ceremony outside Herbert Payne's former houseNorth Oxfordshire Socialist Alliance with their banner celebrating Herbert Payne outside some of the 1915 council housing in Kings Road, Banbury
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Then coincidentally the Tuesday edition of “Great British Railways” starts (at 02.29mins) with a piece on Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who also has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque (on 63 Lonsdale Road): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
At 22:30mins on the same programme, Portillo visits the MG Car Club at Kimber House in Abingdon where he learns about Cecil Kimber, who has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque on the Boundary House pub there: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
There’s an interesting piece about Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque on 94 Woodstock Road, in the Monday edition of Michael Portillo’s repeated “Great British Railways” series on BBC4 this week. Here on the i-Player at 04.41mins: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
More on Olive Gibbs and her Oxfordshire Blue Plaque here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/gibb...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
You can see William Buckland's Oxfordshire blue plaque on the Old Rectory in Islip www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/buck...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Joan Clarke (Mrs Murray): www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/murr...
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Joan Murray, née Clarke
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Dorothy Hodgkin: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/hodg...
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This Historic England blog on “Groundbreaking English Women of Science” includes two women who have been awarded Oxfordshire Blue Plaques on houses in Oxford city (Dorothy Hodgkin and Joan Clarke): heritagecalling.com/2025/01/16/g...
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Groundbreaking English Women of Science in History
Discover the lives of women who impacted scientific discoveries in England's history, such as Marie Stopes and codebreaker Joan Clarke.
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Here is Ronnie’s Barker Oxfordshire Blue Plaque at 23 Church Cowley Road: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bark...
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Ronnie Barker
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
An exhibition on “Ronnie Barker: Oxford’s Comedy Legend” opens at the Museum of Oxford in the Town Hall today (11 Jan 2025) and runs to 19 April: museumofoxford.org/whats-on/spe...
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Special exhibitions - Museum of Oxford
Explore Oxford's stories at the Museum of Oxford's special temporary exhibitions. Our exhibitions are co-curated with Oxford's communities.
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
For more about Andrea Angel, see his Oxfordshire Blue Plaques page: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/ange...
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Did you know that the film Star Heather Angel was the daughter of the Oxford chemist Andrea Angel who has a blue plaque at 15 Banbury Road? More about Heather here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather...
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Heather Angel (actress) - Wikipedia
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
You can read about Olive Gibbs here on her Oxfordshire blue plaque page: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/gibb...
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Olive Gibbs
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Sadly this event has long been sold out: www.eventbrite.com/e/olive-gibb...
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Olive Gibbs: A Remarkable Woman
A captivating new film about the Oxford Labour politician and peace campaigner, Olive Gibbs.
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
There is more information on the history of this Park & Ride scheme (probably the only one in the country to have a blue plaque) here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/oxfo...
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Oxford Park & Ride
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
See the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques website for more information about all the people who have been awarded plaques: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme
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Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme @oxblueplaques.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The unveiling season for this year is now over, and here are the new 2024 plaques. The colour varies according to the amount of sunlight
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