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- The rectangular enamelled steel plaque erected by The London County Council in 1953 to indicate the site of a plot of land donated to the Parish of Chelsea by Sir Hans Sloane in 1733 was replaced in 1977, the new plaque - also enamelled steel and identical in wording being affixed to the same gate pier as the earlier plaque. An entry in the unofficial 'Behind the Blue Plaques of London' suggests the plaque was still extant in 1994. English Heritage recorded this plaque as missing in 1996 and the decision was made not to replace it. Dovehouse Green was refurbished again - to commemorate the Queen's Golden Jubilee - in 2003. The house, and the gate pier to which the plaque was affixed, both survive. (en)
- The London County Council erected a blue glazed ware plaque to Octavia Hill at 8 Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia in 1951. The plaque was removed when that building was demolished in 1961 and subsequently relocated to the first floor of 1 Milbank, at the time the offices of the Church Commissioners but today used by the House of Lords, for display. The building is not open to the general public. Hill was commemorated again by the scheme when English Heritage erected a blue plaque at 2 Garbutt Place, Marylebone in 1991. (en)
- A blue Greater London Council plaque erected to the Antarctic explorer Captain Laurence Oates in 1973. The plaque was removed from 309 Upper Richmond Road, East Sheen, SW15, prior to its demolition in 1999. The whereabouts of the plaque were unknown for a time though it was thought likely to be in the possession of English Heritage This was revealed to be the case in April 2024 when English Heritage released a short film about the plaques in their Wrest Park archive, in which the Oates plaque can be seen. (en)
- The London County Council erected a blue glazed ware plaque to the pioneer trade unionist and radical politician George Odger at 18 St Giles High Street, Holborn in 1949. The house was demolished to make way for the Centre Point office block in 1961, the plaque recovered intact by the LCC and subsequently donated to the Trades Union Congress. It was installed on an interior wall of St Giles in the Fields in 1974. (en)
- Onslow was first commemorated with a Hopton Wood stone tablet erected at 20 Soho Square by the London County Council in July 1912. The plaque was recovered after the Restoration era building was demolished to make way for an eight storey office block being built for Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell in 1924–6 but was deemed unsuitable for re-use and a new bronze plaque was made instead, this being erected in 1927. (en)
- The London County Council erected a plaque of blue glazed ware to commemorate the former residence of Irish poet Thomas Moore at 28 Bury Street, Westminster in 1953. The plaque was removed when the house was demolished in 1962. It was rehung by the LCC at 85 George Street, Marylebone in 1963 and unveiled by the Irish Ambassador Con Cremin. (en)
- A plaque matching the description and location of the bronze example recorded in the 1952 edition of the LCC's "Commemorative Tablets on Houses of Historical Interest" is depicted in a photograph held by London Picture Archive, however the 'date of execution' is recorded as being 1943 - the year after the bridge opened - which, if correct, is too early for it to be a picture of the bronze plaque. The material used appears to be stone or slate rather than bronze and the style of the plaque is quite similar to that of the well documented example erected to Lenin in Holcroft Square which had been put up, controversially, by the LCC in 1942 - during the period 1940-1947 when the plaque scheme was suspended as a wartime economy. What little evidence there is points to this being a different plaque which was replaced with the bronze tablet in 1951, now lost. The completion of the bridge was considered to be of national importance and construction was allowed to continue during the 1939-45 war. The earlier date for this plaque makes sense in the context of the new bridge being opened to traffic in 1942. (en)
- The London County Council erected a ceramic blue plaque at 29 Woolwich Common, Woolwich SE18 to commemorate the birthplace of General Gordon, in 1959. This replaced an earlier memorial to Gordon erected by the Woolwich Antiquarian Society in January 1900. Following a battle between the Ministry of Housing and local and national preservation groups, the terrace including Gordon's former residence was demolished in 1971. The plaque was presented to the Gordon Boys’ School by the GLC. Siedle House and Watling House, part of the Woolwich Common housing estate, now stand on the site. Remarkably the original Woolwich Antiquarian Society plaque also survives and is currently part of a display at Greenwich Heritage Centre. (en)
- A London County Council roundel commemorating Ethel Richardson, known by the pen name Henry Handel Richardson was unveiled by Sir Eric Harrison, Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom at 90 Regent's Park Road in 1957 but lost to demolition six years later. This was the first plaque manufactured by Carter's Tile Co. Ltd of Poole, Dorset, the change of supplier from Doulton necessitated by that firm's relocation from Lambeth to the Midlands. (en)
- Erected by the LCC in 1904, this chocolate brown encaustic ware plaque was destroyed during the 1939-1945 war and was replaced with a ceramic replica in 1948 - the material used to make the majority of plaques for the scheme having been changed to Doulton glazed ware in 1923. (en)
- The London County Council erected a blue plaque to the physician John Snow at 18 Sackville Street in 1949. The house was demolished in 1965. (en)
- The GLC erected an enamelled steel plaque at this site on the 41st anniversary of the first V1 'Doodlebug' to fall on London, in June 1985. This was stolen in 1987. English Heritage replaced it with a traditional ceramic plaque, bearing their name along the top edge but otherwise identically worded, in 1988. (en)
- A plaque had been erected the house where Gibbon wrote much of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by the Society of Arts in 1896 but it was removed when that former residence was demolished thirteen years later. A new plaque was considered in 1925, proposed again in 1949 and, after some debate and considerable delay caused by an intransigent owner, a replacement affixed to the new building by the LCC in 1964. This was a rare late instance of the 'authenticity rule' being waived - the new plaque stating that Gibbon, having no connection to the property, 'lived in a house on this site'. (en)
- The London County Council erected a plaque to the clown Grimaldi at 22 Calshot Street, Finsbury, in 1938. This was one of the last eight plaques erected before the 1939-45 war, among the very last of the wreathed design and the first to be recorded in the 'New Series' of LCC published pamphlets. In Grimaldi's time it was 22 Southampton Street, renumbered 33 in 1889 and renamed Calshot Street in the year the plaque was put up. The plaque was taken down in 1960 when the terrace was scheduled for demolition. After Islington council uncovered evidence of an earlier residence - unlike Calshot Street, one occupied by Grimaldi while he was still performing - English Heritage erected a new blue plaque at 56 Exmouth Market, Clerkenwell in 1989. In April 2024 the 1938 plaque was revealed as one of the items in English Heritage's Wrest Park archive, being shown - complete with the damage incurred during a difficult extraction from the wall of the house, a large part of which remains attached to the reverse - in their second short film about the 'orphan' plaques in their collection. (en)
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- The wreathed chocolate brown plaque of 1905, placed by the London County Council at 14 Doughty Street to commemorate Sydney Smith's residence, was found to be faulty in manufacture and was replaced the following year. (en)
- Handel was first commemorated at 25 Brook Street by the Society of Arts in 1870. This brown encaustic ware plaque had, in the polluted London atmosphere, weathered past the point of legibility by the middle of the 20th century and was replaced by the LCC with a standard blue example in 1951. (en)
- The 1951 LCC plaque, a replacement for a damaged SOA plaque of 1870 was itself replaced in 2001, English Heritage taking the opportunity to correct the previous anglicisation of Handel's middle name, change his occupation from 'Musician' to 'Composer' and move it to a lower position on the facade, aligning it to their 1997 plaque to Jimi Hendrix at No.23 Brook Street in the process. (en)
- The London County Council erected a blue plaque to the artist, illustrator, musician, author and nonsensical poet Edward Lear in 1960. By 2012 the building was determined to be structurally unsound and the plaque was removed prior to a complete rebuild. The new facade of 30 Seymour Street has been made to look identical to the old one but is entirely modern and the scheme 'authenticity' rule means the plaque could not be reinstated at this address. English Heritage anticipated the rehanging of the plaque at a new address in its 2016 program announcement, but this has not yet come to pass. (en)
- A plaque to the stockbroker and physicist Francis Baily was erected by the London County Council at what was believed to have been his house - 37 Tavistock Place - in 1949. In 1952 the LCC were informed by the Survey of London that the plaque had been placed on the wrong house - the houses formerly in Compton Street had been added to Tavistock Place, and the revised street had been renumbered in 1938. What had been No.37 had been demolished, the Mary Ward Settlement occupying the site from 1898.The plaque was removed by the LCC in 1952. The early 19th century building to which it had briefly been affixed still stands. (en)
- Blue plaque erected by English Heritage in 2000 at 3 St Mary's Road, Wimbledon, removed by them prior to the rebuilding of the house in 2009. A privately erected replacement adorns the new structure. The English Heritage plaque is currently on display at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. (en)
- The London County Council erected a plaque of blue glazed ware to commemorate the former residence of the pioneering cinematographer William Friese-Greene at 136 Maida Vale in 1954. The house was demolished in 1997 despite local opposition. The plaque was retrieved by English Heritage but, there being no alternative London residence to which it could be affixed, it could not be re-hung (en)
- The London County Council erected a plaque of blue glazed ware to commemorate Captain Matthew Flinders, navigator and cartographer, who between 1795 and 1803 led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, at 53 Stanhope Street in 1961. The plaque was recovered when the building was demolished in 1965, and rehung under the auspices of the Greater London Council in 1973 at 56 Fitzroy Street, much altered since Flinders' lifetime but now the only one of his London residences to survive. (en)
- Despite appearances to the contrary, this plaque was not authorised by the London County Council, and English Heritage have on several occasions asked the building's owners to remove it. Canaletto never had a studio on this site; the location was an open field during his time in London, and there is no evidence that he had any other London address besides 41 Beak Street, Soho. The origin of the plaque itself, which is indistinguishable from genuine LCC examples of the 1960-65 period, is unknown. A genuine English Heritage plaque commemorating Lokamanya Tilak is affixed to the same building in a less prominent position. (en)
- The Greater London Council erected a blue plaque to the Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist Evelyn Underhill at 50 Campden Hill Square, Holland Park in 1975. Examination of the structure led the GLC to conclude that the tight space called for a different style of plaque to the usual blue roundel, so one was made - this being rectangular, surface mounted, and instead of the enamelled steel hitherto employed in similar circumstances, was made from fibreglass. The plaque did not weather well - it was found to be damaged when inspected in 1988 and the decision made to replace it. Measurements having been taken, it transpired that a standard blue roundel would fit after all. The new English Heritage plaque - a standard blue ceramic roundel, 495mm in diameter, was affixed in 1990. Fibreglass was used by the scheme on only one other occasion - a unique oval plaque commemorating William Blake and John Linnell at Old Wyldes', North End, Hampstead, this also being put up in 1975 - in this instance the material being chosen as suitable for attachment to the weatherboarded walls of the seventeenth century farmhouse. (en)
- A memorial to the architect John Rennie - comprising two surviving columns and a length of balustrading from his Waterloo Bridge and a bronze memorial tablet - was erected by The London County Council in 1951, at the time of the Festival of Britain. Construction of a new Waterloo bridge had begun in 1937 to the design of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott but completion was hampered by the 1939-45 war. The new bridge was officially opened in September 1942 but not fully completed until 1945. The memorial incorporating the plaque was dismantled when new buildings for the National Film Theatre were constructed on the site. It was intended to re-erect it when a suitable position could be determined. In the 1972, the Greater London council made detailed plans for a new memorial to John Rennie on the Victoria Embankment, near the northern abutment, and enquiries were made about the whereabouts of the components of the 1951 memorial, which could not be determined. (en)
- The Society of Arts erected a plaque to John Ruskin in the year of his death at 54 Hunter Street. This was one of a number of run-down Georgian houses demolished to make way for the Brunswick Centre in the late 1960s. (en)
- The Greater London Council erected a plaque of blue glazed ware at No.16 Suffolk Street to commemorate the artist Richard Dadd in 1977. The address was subsequently discovered to be incorrect - the wholesale mid-20th century rebuilding of no.15-17 Suffolk Street in a neo-Regency style having caused the confusion - and it was moved to its present location, the adjacent No.16, in 1980. (en)
- The first plaque to Lloyd George at 3 Routh Road, erected by the Greater London Council in 1967, gave an incorrect date of birth - he was born in 1863, not 1865 - and was replaced by English Heritage in 1992. (en)
- A Society of Arts plaque originally affixed to Furnival's Inn, in which Dickens resided for a time, in 1886. This building was demolished in 1897, being replaced by the Prudential Assurance buildings where the plaque can be seen today, having been privately re-erected in the 1910s. The appendices of the book "Indication of houses of historical interest in London Volume III" published by the LCC records the plaque in the courtyard of Prudential Buildings, Holborn Bars in 1912. Perhaps in error, it is recorded as being part of the scheme in the edition of the LCC's 'Commemorative Tablets on Houses of Historical Interest' published in 1952. Only the Doughty Street plaque is listed in the 1960 edition. (en)
- The first plaque to Thomas Hardy at 172 Trinity Road was of brown glazed ware, erected by the London County Council in March 1940, shortly before wartime economies forced the closure of the London-wide plaque scheme for seven years. The plaque was one of six made to a new and greatly simplified design introduced in 1939; the colour was described as a 'warm sepia', the lettering cream, and the wreath omitted, giving more space for the inscription. After the first, a thin white border was added. After the war, the LCC seems to have had a change of heart as after erecting the last three brown plaques in 1947-8 they reverted to blue. It seems that the Hardy plaque was faulty as it quickly wore out and had to be replaced, the current standard blue LCC roundel going up in 1962. (en)
- The London County Council erected a plaque to the political psychologist and Fabian Graham Wallas at 38 St. Leonard's Terrace, close to the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, in 1960. Nos.37-41 were among the houses in St.Leonard's Terrace, Tedworth Square, Tedworth Gardens and Radnor Walk demolished in 1974 to make way for a modern four-storey development of flats and self-contained maisonettes with a basement car park completed c1978. (en)
- The London County Council erected a plaque of blue glazed ware to commemorate the residence of bookseller and newsagent, later Member of Parliament, William Henry Smith at 3 Grosvenor Place, Westminster in 1961. Smith had lived here for the last nine years of his life, a period in which he served as First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons. The building was redeveloped three years later. The recovered plaque was rehung at 12 Hyde Park Street in 1966 by the Greater London Council. (en)
- This plaque, erected by the London County Council in 1898, predates their stewardship of the London-wide plaque scheme by three years. The only one of its type, it has never been incorporated into the official scheme. (en)
- The first London County Council blue plaque at this site, erected in 1936, gave an incorrect date of birth and described him as a novelist rather than an author. It was replaced, after The Spectator noted these errors, the following year. The plaque illustrated in 'Indication of Houses of Historical Interest in London' is the replacement. No mention is made of the error and the - usually precise - date of installation is absent from the text. (en)
- The London County Council erected a blue plaque to Lilian Baylis and Emma Cons, the founders of the Old Vic theatre, at 6 Morton Place, Stockwell, in 1952. The house was demolished in 1971. The plaque was presented to the governors of the Old Vic for the Theatre Museum - its current whereabouts as yet undetermined. Baylis and Cons were subsequently commemorated individually with Greater London Council plaques - Baylis at 27 Stockwell Park Road, Stockwell in 1974, Cons at 136 Seymour Place, Marylebone in 1978. (en)
- The original plaque, erected by the Greater London Council in 1986, was damaged during building work. It was replaced with an exact replica, retaining the name of the long-since-abolished GLC along its top edge, by English Heritage in 1991. (en)
- Kipling was first commemorated at 43 Villiers Street by the scheme in 1940 - only four years after his death - with one of the London County Council's experimental series of brown plaques. As with the plaque commemorating Thomas Hardy in the same series, it weathered badly and was replaced with a standard blue example in 1957. (en)
- In 1953 London County Council erected a rectangular plaque of enamelled steel indicating the site of a plot of land donated to the Parish of Chelsea by Sir Hans Sloane, physician and benefactor of the British Museum, in 1733. The plaque was attached to a gate pier at the house named Kings's Mead, close to the junction of Dovehouse Street and Kings Road. It was replaced in 1977 when the site, now known as Dovehouse Gardens, was refurbished to commemorate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. The land in question was donated by Sloane for use as a burial ground which the Survey of London recorded as 'long disused' and employed as a recreation ground 'for the old men and women of the adjoining workhouse' in 1913. St. Luke's Workhouse would later become the Chelsea Institution, then Kingsmead Old People's Home, demolished in the 1970s. Sloane's residence in Bloomsbury is commemorated with a plaque at 4 Bloomsbury Place, one of the last erected by the LCC, put up in 1965. (en)
- An LCC Blue Plaque erected in 1958 at 11 Clarges Street, Picadilly, removed when the building was demolished five years later. The plaque was presented to the author Michael Hardwick - husband of Mollie Hardwick, also an author who later wrote a biography of Lady Hamilton - in 1964. It now forms part of the ephemera collection of Sankeys, a public house at 39 Mount Ephraim, Royal Tunbridge Wells. (en)
- In the summer of 1876 the Society of Arts erected a plaque to the statesman George Canning at 37 Conduit Street, Mayfair, where he had resided during his time in the Addington ministry . 37 Conduit Street was lost during the 1939-1945 war . A Hotel - The Westbury, opened in 1955, occupies the site today. Canning was later commemorated by the scheme at 50 Berkeley Square, the Greater London Council having erected a standard blue roundel there in 1979. (en)
- In 1962, at the suggestion of the Finsbury Communist Party, the London County Council consented to and then - despite critical press commentary and the New River Company's insistence on an indemnity against consequent damage - erected a blue plaque to Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin, at No.16 Percy Circus. Lenin had lodged here with his wife as one of 38 delegates to the 3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905, held in the back rooms of public houses and restaurants by the Bolsheviks to hammer out a strategy for the Russian revolution of that year. The plaque was affixed to the ground floor wall on the left hand side of the Percy Circus elevation of the house. In August of 1968 No.16–18 were demolished to make way for an extension of The Royal Scot Hotel. The plaque - which does not appear to have attracted the unwanted attention of vandals during the six years it was on show to the public - was retrieved by the Greater London Council who, in keeping with the scheme rules having refused consent for it to be rehung on the modern facsimile of a Victorian wall now fronting onto Percy Circus, gifted it to the Mayor of Moscow, Vladimir Promyslov in 1971. An unofficial memorial arranged by Trevor Burfield of Centremoor Ltd, the developer of the site, was erected in 1972, this being unveiled in August of that year - in the face of anti-Soviet demonstrations - by the then-Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Smirnovsky. To avoid provoking further trouble, the plaque was covered over for a time after the unveiling but it is now an established feature of the streetscape. (en)
- The second London County Council plaque to Marx, installed after the first was vandalised. It too was vandalised soon after installation by fascist supporters and the owner declined the offer of a third. 41 Maitland Park Road has since been demolished. Marx was eventually commemorated by the scheme in 1967, a Greater London Council plaque being erected at 28 Dean Street, Soho in that year. (en)
- Reynolds was one of the first four recipients of a memorial from the official London-wide scheme, a plaque of blue encaustic ware being erected by the Society of Arts at his townhouse in Leicester Square - then No.47 Leicester Fields - in 1869, two years after the first. The plaque was removed when the house was demolished to make way for Fanum House, the new headquarters of The Automobile Association, in 1937. A new plaque, one of the LCCs experimental series of brown plaques and arguably a direct replacement for the original , was installed in 1947. This was removed in 1957 when work to extend Fanum House began, and re-affixed at first-floor level in 1960. The AA added an enamelled steel plaque duplicating the wording of the LCCs at street level in 1965. The building at 48 Leicester Square, subsequently renamed Communications House, was extensively reconstructed and reconfigured in 2016, neither plaque being disturbed in the process. In April 2024 the 1869 plaque was revealed as one of the oldest items in English Heritage's Wrest Park archive, being shown in their short film about the 'orphan' plaques in their collection. When first erected, the plaque was affixed to a wooden mount similar to that of the earliest surviving plaque in the scheme, to Napoleon III in King Street, St. James's. It is embossed on the reverse with the makers name - Minton & Co, Stoke upon Trent. (en)
- The London County Council erected a plaque to the surgeon, zoologist, author and natural historian Francis Trevelyan Buckland at 37 Albany Street in 1949. The house was demolished in 1961. Denys Lasdun's Grade I listed building for the Royal College of Physicians completed in 1964 now occupies the site. (en)
- This black plaque of a unique design - acknowledging, as with the equally distinct plaque to Captain Cook, the exceptional marking a 'site-of' rather than an authentic building - was affixed to a 70's office block named Caroone House in 1985, shortly before the Greater London Council was abolished. It was removed from the scheme immediately prior to the demolition of this building in 2004. The plaque was subsequently privately re-erected close to its former location, at 5 Fleet Place, part of the Ludgate West development. (en)
- This plaque was originally sited at No.5 Adelphi Terrace, one of a block of 24 unified neoclassical terrace houses built between 1768 and 1772 by the Adam brothers, incorporating a new headquarters for the Society of Arts . Many of these were demolished in 1936, being replaced with the New Adelphi, a monumental Art Deco building, with only No.11 and the purpose-built Royal Society of Arts headquarters surviving from the old development. The plaque was assumed to have been lost or destroyed at this time, until 2015 when remarkably it resurfaced to be sold at auction. Acquired by the Garrick Club, it has been put on display in the reception area of the club at 15 Garrick Street. The London plaque scheme later commemorated Garrick at Garrick's Villa, Hampton Court Road, the GLC erecting a standard blue roundel there in 1970. (en)
- The Society of Arts erected a plaque to the painter James Barry at 36 Castle Street , Fitzrovia in May 1881. The house was demolished c1925. Westminster City Council have affixed a green plaque commemorating Barry to the building that now occupies the site. (en)
- A triangular London County Council plaque from 1909 originally marked the location of the tree at ground level. Made of granolithic with the wording in brass and a depiction of the ancient gallows at the centre, it was replaced with the current circular memorial by the Greater London Council in 1964, the original having been displaced by road improvements. The London County Council does not initially appear to have considered this marker to be part if the 'Indication of houses of historical interest in London' scheme, being absent from their books on the subject. (en)
- The original plaque of 1994 included Lord Reith's first forename but omitted his second and it was decided to replace it with a new plaque, omitting both forenames, this being affixed the following year. (en)
- The London County Council erected a blue glazed ware plaque to the William and Catherine Booth at Hillsborough House, Rookwood Road, Stamford Hill, Hackney - at one time, a Salvation Army home for 'inebriates' - in 1963. The house was demolished in 1971. In April 2024 the plaque was revealed to be one of the examples of 'orphan' plaques preserved in the English Heritage archive at Wrest Park. An unusual feature of the plaque is that the raised letters are outlined in red rather than the usual grey in a nod to the Salvation Army's colour. (en)
- The Society of Arts erected a plaque of chocolate brown encaustic ware to Oliver Cromwell's Secretary of State John Thurloe on the Chancery Lane elevation of his chambers block, 24 Old Square, later XXIV Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, in 1890. The list of plaques published by the GLC in 1971 records it having been removed in 1969. Historic England's listing for 24 Old Buildings refers to some rebuilding taking place in 1967. Comparison of archive photographs to modern day images provides evidence that the building, which is known to have sustained damage in the 1941 'Blitz' was significantly altered, refronted or rebuilt in the 20th century. The site of Thurloe's chambers is now marked - still on the Chancery Lane elevation - by a plaque of blue glazed ware put up by the Cromwell Society.ref|Image of the lost John Thurloe plaque held by The London Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB, reference SC/PHL/02/1252-112|group=tla_note (en)
- The Greater London Council erected a blue plaque to the French artist and sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska at 454 Fulham Road in 1977. The entire group of buildings was demolished to make way for the Fulham Broadway development, the plaque being recovered by English Heritage who initially planned to re-site it. This did not come to pass, Gaudier-Brzeska being commemorated with a new plaque at 25 Winthorpe Road, Putney in 2017. (en)
- The first plaque placed by the official London-wide plaque scheme was erected by the Society of Arts at a house, rebuilt in 1852, on the site of Lord Byron's supposed birthplace in Holles Street. This was blue encaustic ware, manufactured by Minton Hollins & Co. Plaques in the colour blue proved difficult to produce and, after the first four, the majority of the SOAs plaques would be terracotta. 24 Holles Street was lost to demolition in 1889. No evidence supporting Lord Byron's residency at a particular house number in Holles Street has been found and it is likely that neither the SOA plaque nor the three subsequent plaques placed by other organisations on roughly the same site actually marked his birthplace. (en)
- The Greater London Council erected a plaque of blue glazed ware to commemorate the residence of the Jamaican nurse and businesswoman Mary Seacole at 157 George Street, Paddington in 1985. The plaque was retrieved by English Heritage prior to demolition in 1998 and rehung at 14 Soho Square, where Seacole lodged in early 1857, in 2007. (en)
- The plaque to reformer William Ewart, the British liberal politician who in 1863 conceived the idea of commemorative plaques to celebrate the link between a location and a famous person or event - an idea which subsequently led to the creation of the London plaque scheme in 1866 - was erected by London County Council in 1952. The plaque was recovered by the LCC prior to the demolition of 6 Cambridge Square in 1962 and rehung at 16 Eaton Place, Belgravia SW1 in August 1963. (en)
- A blue plaque was erected to the music hall sketch comedian Harry Tate by the Greater London Council at 72 Longley Road Tooting in 1984. The house was demolished in 1991, and flats now occupy the site.ref|Image of the lost Harry Tate plaque held by The London Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB, reference SC/PHL/02/1252-70|group=tla_note (en)
- The current London County Council blue plaque of 1951 replaced a tablet erected by the Society of Arts at 80 Pall Mall in 1881 which had weathered beyond the point of legibility. This was not the Schomberg House of Gainsborough's time, this having been demolished in 1850. The replacement building to which the SOA tablet had been affixed was pulled down c1909. The replacement for the 1909 building was largely demolished in 1956, the facades of 81-82 being retained and that of No.80 being rebuilt to its original form. (en)
- The Society of Arts erected a terracotta encaustic ware plaque to Sir Robert Walpole, later Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, PC, at 5 Arlington Street in 1881. Badly weathered, it was replaced with a joint plaque to Sir Robert and his son Horace by the Greater London Council in 1976. (en)
- The Greater London Council erected a plaque to Margaret McMillan at The Rachel McMillan College in Deptford in 1985. The plaque was removed prior to the redevelopment of the site in 2003. A new English Heritage plaque commemorating Margaret and her sister Rachel was affixed to 51 Tweedy Road, Bromley in 2009. (en)
- The first plaque commemorating Freud at 20 Maresfield Gardens was erected by the London County Council and unveiled by his daughter Anna in 1956, the 100th anniversary of his birth. Issues with the usual manufacturer forced the LCC to seek an alternative, resulting in the use of an inferior surface mounted enamelled steel item. When in 2002 it was decided to commemorate Anna Freud at the same address, English Heritage took the opportunity to replace Sigmund's steel plaque with a matching one of the traditional ceramic type, this new plaque featuring a subtly altered inscription. (en)
- The Society of Arts erected a memorial tablet to the painter, engraver, satirist, cartoonist and writer William Hogarth at Archbishop Tenison's School, Leicester Square in May 1881. Hogarth lived, and died in a townhouse on this site, which after his death became part of the Sabloniere Hotel The house, in the south-east corner of the square, was demolished in 1869 to make way for new buildings for Tenison's School, which had been displaced from its former location by an extension to the National Gallery. Tennison's school moved to Kennington Oval in 1928; it closed due to falling admissions in 2023. Hogarth's plaque was removed after the former school building suffered bomb damage in the 1939-1945 war. The site was subsequently cleared and is now occupied by 29-30 Leicester Square, a seven storey office block completed in 1953. (en)
- The Society of Arts erected a memorial tablet to Peter I of Russia at 15 Buckingham Street in 1881. Notable residents of this house included Charles Dickens, the geologist William Smith and the architect William Burges but not, it turns out, the Czar of Russia. The Survey of London, recording the date of demolition as 1906, points out that, whilst many writers have stated that Peter the Great lodged at 15 Buckingham Street during his visit to England in 1697-1698, there does not seem to be a shred of contemporary evidence to substantiate the claim, adding that a likely explanation is that a misreading of 'Norfolk Buildings' as 'York Buildings' led an early researcher to conclude that No.15 best fit written descriptions of the house - No.14 being ruled out on the grounds that this was, at the time, occupied by Samuel Pepys - and so a misstatement arose which was copied by later generations of writers. The new buildings erected on the site of Nos.15 and 16 Buckingham Street in 1906 were destroyed by bombing during the 1939-1945 war. Burdett House, a seven-storey office block, built in 1968, now occupies the site. (en)
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