User talk:Spudgun67

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Welcome to Wikipedia, I found your brilliant images of EH blue plaques on Wikimedia Commons invaluable, thank you. No Swan So Fine (talk) 11:33, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

More and more brilliant plaque contributions. THANK YOU. No Swan So Fine (talk) 20:52, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

I appreciate all your plaque additions too. Edwardx (talk) 22:35, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

I'll take requests :) Spudgun67 (talk) 22:23, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

I was appalled to see that you've already taken high quality photographs of every plaque placed in 2015. I've just thrown my Oyster card in the bin. Thank you so much :) No Swan So Fine (talk) 09:59, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

I know, it's terrible. I really need to get out less.Spudgun67 (talk) 21:11, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Your ever present vigilance for the plaques continues to impress and disturb me. Thank you once again...Every house in London will have one this time next week. No Swan So Fine (talk) 12:19, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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	Thanks for your amazing work on the plaques! Philafrenzy (talk) 22:41, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	For your outstanding efforts in getting the images for the the List of English Heritage blue plaques in London almost complete. Edwardx (talk) 12:44, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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	Thanks for all your effort on List of former English Heritage blue plaques. Especially incredible to see that it's your first article! asilvering (talk) 18:45, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Spudgun67 (talk) 18:46, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Speechless! Absolutely unbelievable work. Gold plaque for you, Sir Spud! No Swan So Fine (talk) 22:09, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I have turned positively shrimp. If it's of interest to one person, my work is done. Spudgun67 (talk) 22:54, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

I was walking and photographing yesterday in Westmimster and saw 9 and 11 Old Queen Street. I didn't bother to do the plaques as I assumed you had. And of course i was correct. You've left an amazing corpus here. So many articles to come, I hope! No Swan So Fine (talk) 19:01, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

I created a category for Bedford Estate plaques over at Commons. What fine sculptures they are. No Swan So Fine (talk) 12:00, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

I like them very much. Bronze. Some tyke on a scooter tried to snatch my little Sony camera as I was admiring one a couple of New Years Days ago :-)

The Bedford Estate didn't allow the LCC to put plaques up for many years, but would accept suggestions. It seems - though I'm not 100% sure - that the Bedford Estate plaques absorbed into the official scheme by the GLC in the 1970s and 80s were those that the LCC had suggested, and were still in an authentic location.

From the appendix of the second edition of first volume of the LCC's 'Indication of Houses of Historical Interest in London' (1915). Plaques 'erected by the Duke of Bedford.' Busy chap.

Topham & Lady Diana Beauclerk, 101 & 102 Great Russell Street (Oof! I don't have a picture of this one! Now's your chance!)

Henry Cavendish, 11 Bedford Square (Suggested by the London County Council)

Isaac D'israeli, 6 Bloomsbury Square

David Garrick, 27 Southampton Street, Covent Garden

Sir Thomas Lawrence, 65 Russell Square (Suggested by the London County Council, premises demolished since the first edition of the book it says, so between 1907 and 1915. This is the one now on the increasingly grotty 1960s rebuild of the - Edwardian - Imperial Hotel)

Lord Loughborough, 67 Russell Square (seems to have disappeared under the Imperial Hotel says Google)

William Murray, Earl of Mansfield, 28 & 29 Bloomsbury Square (quick Google - demolished to make way for Victoria House)

Admiral the Earl of Orford, 43 King Street, Covent Garden

Sir Anthony Panizzi, 31 Bloomsbury Square (Suggested by the London County Council, another Google says demolished to make way for Victoria House)

Sir Samuel Romilly, 54 Gower Street (Suggested by the London County Council, the book states that these premises had demolished since the first edition of the book. Emily Cole's book records that it was re-erected at Romilly's subsequent residence, 21 Russell Square, in 1919. The GLC adopted this one in 1983.)

Volume II (1909) lists a few more erected since the first edition of vol I

Philip, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield et al, 45 Bloomsbury Square

Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough and Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, 41 Bloomsbury Square. This might have been displaced by Sicilian Avenue which was completed in 1910 and is right where you'd expect No.41 to be but this a bit of a leap, renumbering has caught out better men than me, speculation at this point, but gone.

Cardinal Newman, 17 Southampton Street (Suggested by the London County Council, not adopted for some reason)

Augustus Charles Pugin et al, 106 Great Russell Street. Another one I haven't bagged.

The next appendix listing plaques erected by persons or authorities other the council is in the fifth volume. It's grown from 3 pages to 14 in no small part due to the activities of the Corporation of London who got their scheme going in the 1920s. The only Bedford addition is the Christina Rossetti plaque at 30 Torrington Square.

The Johnson Forbes-Robertson plaque at 22 Bedford Square is much later than the others - given his date of death in 1937, too late for the LCCs books to record. They never published anything as comprehensive after the 1939-45 war. Spudgun67 (talk) 23:34, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

I did a bit of bagging on Sunday afternoon Spudgun67 (talk) 22:22, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Incredible research yet again! I love getting the steps in around town doing buildings - I feel as if I'm in the footsteps of Boz and Robinson et al. Are you going to do an article on the Bloomsbury plaques? You should submit your research for publication, seriously. No Swan So Fine (talk) 13:18, 20 January 2024 (UTC)