257 Plaques in Postcode: WC1

Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ Thomas Coram(Philanthropist)(Photos Taken: 02-Oct-2025)Link

14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR Robert Travers Herford(Religious)(Photos Taken: 19-Feb-2015)Link

Foundling Museum, Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ Thomas Coram(Philanthropist)(Photos Taken: 17-Apr-2015)Link

BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JP Charles Dickens(Author)(Photos Taken: 17-Apr-2015)Link

44 Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N 2AJ Hilda Doolittle (HD)(Poet)(Photos Taken: 17-Apr-2015)Link

41 Marchmont Street, Kings Cross, London WC1N 1AP Charles Fort(Author)(Photos Taken: 17-Apr-2015)Link

61 Judd Street, London WC1H 9QT Alexander Herzen(Press)(Photos Taken: 17-Apr-2015)Link

21 Mecklenburgh Square, London, WC1N 2AD Syed Ahmed Khan(Religious)(Photos Taken: 17-Apr-2015)Link

56 Marchmont Street, Kings Cross, London WC1N 1AB William Reeve(Composer)(Photos Taken: 17-Apr-2015)Link

21 Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N 2AD R H Tawney(Historian)(Photos Taken: 17-Apr-2015)Link

57 Marchmont Street, Kings Cross, London WC1N 1AP Kenneth Williams(Comedian)(Photos Taken: 17-Apr-2015)Link

48 Bernard Street, London WC1N Roger Fry(Painter)(Photos Taken: 21-Apr-2015)Link

32 John Street, London WC1N 1HB John Kirk (Ragged School)(Philanthropist)(Photos Taken: 21-Apr-2015)Link

25 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AYLondon School of Tropical Medicine(Hospitals etc)(Photos Taken: 21-Apr-2015)Link

14 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PL Sydney Smith(Author)(Photos Taken: 21-Apr-2015)Link

13 Russell Square, London WC1B 5ER George Williams(Religious)(Photos Taken: 21-Apr-2015)Link

Queen Court, Guilford Street, London WC1N 3BB F F E Yeo-Thomas(Armed Forces)(Photos Taken: 06-May-2015)Link

24 Gower Street, London WC1E First in England Anaesthetic(Hospitals etc)(Photos Taken: 16-May-2015)Link

6 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RALord Eldon (John Scott)(Lawyer)(Photos Taken: 16-May-2015)Link

34 Ridgmount Gardens, London WC1E 7AS Bob Marley(Singer)(Photos Taken: 16-May-2015)Link

42 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3HX William Butterfield(Architect)(Photos Taken: 03-Jun-2015)Link

46 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3PA Randolph Caldecott(Illustrator)(Photos Taken: 03-Jun-2015)Link

6 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2LP Isaac DIsraeli(Author)(Photos Taken: 03-Jun-2015)Link

91 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3PS George du Maurier(Painter)(Photos Taken: 03-Jun-2015)Link

41 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3HX Anthony Hope(Author)(Photos Taken: 03-Jun-2015)Link

66 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3BN John Nash(Architect)(Photos Taken: 03-Jun-2015)Link

67 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3BN John Nash(Architect)(Photos Taken: 03-Jun-2015)Link

17 Southampton Place, London, WC1A 2AJ Cardinal Newman(Religious)(Photos Taken: 03-Jun-2015)Link

Russell Chambers, Bury Place, London WC1A 2JU Bertrand Russell(Philosopher)(Photos Taken: 03-Jun-2015)Link

10 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2LP Robert Willan(Medical)(Photos Taken: 03-Jun-2015)Link

77 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3PS Thomas Henry Wyatt(Architect)(Photos Taken: 03-Jun-2015)Link

126 Southampton Row, London WC1B 5AD John Barbirolli(Conductor)(Photos Taken: 06-Jun-2015)Link

23 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS T S Eliot(Poet)(Photos Taken: 06-Jun-2015)Link

8 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW Hugh Price Hughes(Religious)(Photos Taken: 06-Jun-2015)Link

21 Russell Square, London WC1B Samuel Romilly(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 06-Jun-2015)Link

51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN Lytton Strachey(Author)(Photos Taken: 06-Jun-2015)Link

NCP, Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AF John Barbirolli(Conductor)(Photos Taken: 14-Jun-2015)Link

35 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RH Mary Anne Clarke(Courtesan)(Photos Taken: 14-Jun-2015)Link

Tavistock Square Gardens, London WC1H Mahatma Gandhi(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 14-Jun-2015)Link

32 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RHJerome K Jerome(Author)(Photos Taken: 14-Jun-2015)Link

36 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RE Vladimir Ilyich Lenin(Head of Government)(Photos Taken: 14-Jun-2015)Link

8 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP William Richard Lethaby(Architect)(Photos Taken: 14-Jun-2015)Link

8A Woburn Walk, London WC1H 0JL Dorothy Richardson(Author)(Photos Taken: 14-Jun-2015)Link

5 Woburn Walk, London WC1H 0JJ William Butler Yeats(Poet)(Photos Taken: 14-Jun-2015)Link

12 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4QD John Harrison(Inventor)(Photos Taken: 25-Jun-2015)Link

Staple Inn, London WC1V 7QJStaple Inn Hall(World War History)(Photos Taken: 25-Jun-2015)Link

16 Great Percy Street, London WC1X 9EE Vladimir Ilyich Lenin(Head of Government)(Photos Taken: 26-Jun-2015)Link

119 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7BD Thomas Earnshaw(Scientist)(Photos Taken: 30-Jun-2015)Link

The City Law School, 4 Grays Inn Square, London WC1R 5DXSun Yat-Sen(Head of Government)(Photos Taken: 30-Jun-2015)Link

33 Ampton Street, London WC1X 0LT Thomas Carlyle(Philosopher)(Photos Taken: 12-Jan-2016)Link

11 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RF Henry Cavendish(Scientist)(Photos Taken: 12-Jan-2016)Link

91 Gower Street, London WC1E 6AA George Dance the Younger(Architect)(Photos Taken: 12-Jan-2016)Link

23 Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JB John Howard(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 12-Jan-2016)Link

24 Great James Street, London WC1N 3ES Dorothy L Sayers(Author)(Photos Taken: 12-Jan-2016)Link

4 Bloomsbury Place, London WC1A 2QA Hans Sloane(Medical)(Photos Taken: 12-Jan-2016)Link

11 Gower Street, London WC1E 6HB Robert Aickman(Author)(Photos Taken: 03-Mar-2016)Link

2 Gower Street, London WC1E 6DP Millicent Garrett Fawcett(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 03-Mar-2016)Link

10 Gower Street, London WC1E 6HE Ottoline Morrell(Philanthropist)(Photos Taken: 03-Mar-2016)Link

7 Gower Street, London WC1E 6HA The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood(Art Group)(Photos Taken: 03-Mar-2016)Link

13 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RA Harry Ricardo(Engineer)(Photos Taken: 03-Mar-2016)Link

14 Gower Street, London WC1E 6AR James Robinson(Medical)(Photos Taken: 03-Mar-2016)Link

Red Lion Square, London WC1R Fenner Brockway(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 06-Mar-2016)Link
Plaque Wording: Fenner Brockway President of Liberation Born 1 November 1888 Died 28 April 11 1988
Erected by the GLC in honour of his untiring efforts for peace and racial equality. 25 July 1985

110 Gower Street, London WC1E 6DP Charles Darwin(Scientist)(Photos Taken: 06-Mar-2016)Link

22 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PF Benjamin Disraeli(Head of Government)(Photos Taken: 06-Mar-2016)Link

19 Wharton Street, London WC1X 9PT Amelia Edwards(Author)(Photos Taken: 06-Mar-2016)Link

35 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3HX Thomas Hodgkin(Medical)(Photos Taken: 06-Mar-2016)Link

129 Gower Street, London WC1E 7HU Victor Horsley(Medical)(Photos Taken: 06-Mar-2016)Link

20 Calthorpe Street, London WC1X 0JP William Richard Lethaby(Architect)(Photos Taken: 06-Mar-2016)Link

London House, Guilford Street, London WC1N 2AB Charles Parsons(Inventor)(Photos Taken: 06-Mar-2016)Link

49 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP Ram Mohun Roy(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 06-Mar-2016)Link

35 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3HX Thomas Wakley(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 06-Mar-2016)Link

4 Burton Place, London WC1H 9AH Robert Owen(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 20-Jul-2016)Link

30 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2AA Charlotte Mew(Poet)(Photos Taken: 15-Nov-2016)Link

10 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1DTSick Childrens Trust(Charitable)(Photos Taken: 15-Nov-2016)Link

United Reformed Church, 88 Tavistock Place, Kings Cross, London WC1H 9RSChurch House Bombing(World War History)(Photos Taken: 09-Aug-2017)Link
Plaque Wording: In memory of those who died in the destruction of Church House 9th February 1945. {10 names) 11th February 1957

Bedford Hotel, 93 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4HDAir Raids(World War History)(Photos Taken: 30-Jan-2018)Link

51 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0DG George Denman(Lawyer)(Photos Taken: 30-Jan-2018)Link

6 Grays Inn Square, London WC1R 5AX Samuel Romilly(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 30-Jan-2018)Link

Naoroji Street, Clerkenwell, London WC1X 0GB Dadabhai Naoroji(Politician)(Photos Taken: 06-Feb-2018)Link

91 Judd Street, Kings Cross, London WC1H 9JB Alphonse Normandy(Scientist)(Photos Taken: 23-Feb-2018)Link

1 Cartwright Gardens, Kings Cross, London WC1X 9EN Rowland Hill(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 22-Jun-2018)Link

Cartwright Gardens, Kings Cross, London WC1H 9EL John Cartwright(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 22-Jun-2018)Link

39-40 Bedford Place, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 5JT John Thelwall(Author)(Photos Taken: 04-Aug-2018)Link

66 Marchmont Street, Kings Cross, London WC1N 1AB Mark Ashton(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 09-Oct-2018)Link

4 Woburn Walk, Kings Cross, London WC1H 0JL George Holyoake(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 25-Jan-2019)Link

45 Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1AP David Storey(Author)(Photos Taken: 25-Jan-2019)Link

8 Grenville Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1LZ J M Barrie(Author)(Photos Taken: 25-Jan-2019)Link

92 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1DP James Burton(Entrepreneur)(Photos Taken: 25-Jan-2019)Link

136 Gower Street, Kings Cross, London WC1E 6BP H K Lewis(Author)(Photos Taken: 29-Jan-2019)Link

105 Gower Street, Fitzrovia, London WC1E 6AANational Institute for the Deaf (Charitable)King George VI (Royalty)(Photos Taken: 29-Jan-2019)Link
Plaque Wording: This building was opened as the headquarters of the National Institute for the Deaf by his majesty King George VI when HRH the Duke of York on the 11th day of June 1936.

27 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LHThe Plough(Pub)(Photos Taken: 29-Jan-2019)Link

Bury Place, Bloomsbury, London WC1A 2SLWomen's Freedom League(Political Group)(Photos Taken: 29-Jan-2019)Link

St Helen Garden, Lloyd Square, Clerkenwell, London WC1X 9BDAmwell Society(Historical London)(Photos Taken: 28-Feb-2019)Link

Mail Rail, 15-20 Phoenix Place, Clerkenwell, London WC1X 0DLPost Office Rifles(World War History)(Photos Taken: 01-Mar-2020)Link

St George's Gardens, Wakefield Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 8HZ Thomas Falconer(Religious)(Photos Taken: 01-Jun-2020)Link
Plaque Wording: Any wording has been obliterated over time, but there is an information sign at the entrance to the cemetery which mentions Thomas Falconer

Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 9EU Virginia Woolf(Author)(Photos Taken: 01-Jun-2020)Link

Drill Hall, 16 Chenies Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7EX Drill Hall(Historical London)(Photos Taken: 04-Jun-2020)Link

Drill Hall, 16 Chenies Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7EX Drill Hall Soldiers(Historical London)(Photos Taken: 04-Jun-2020)Link

Bloomsbury Square, Holborn, London WC1A 2RJBedford Estate(Historical London)(Photos Taken: 04-Jun-2020)Link
Plaque Wording: Dined at my Lord Treasurer's, the Earle of Southampton, in Bloomsbury where he was building a noble square or piazza, a little towne" John Evelyn's diary, 1665.

St George's Gardens, Wakefield Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 8HZ Charles Edward Stuart (Royalty) Jacobite Army (1745) (Armed Forces)(Photos Taken: 04-Jun-2020)Link
Plaque Wording: In memory of the officers and gentlemen of the army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart who were executed on Kennington Common in July, August and November 1746. Nine of the Manchester Regiment and seven Scots are buried here. Francis Towneley, Colonel of the Manchester Regiment lies in the churchyard of Old St Pancras church. Tandem Triumphans The 1745 Association

14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0ARDr Williams's Library(Education)(Photos Taken: 04-Jun-2020)Link

13 Great Ormond Street, Holborn, London WC1N 3RAGreat Ormond Street(Historical London)(Photos Taken: 04-Jun-2020)Link

Sanders House, Great Percy Street, Islington, London WC1X 9QZSanders House(World War History)(Photos Taken: 27-Jun-2020)Link

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Bloomsbury Square, Holborn, London WC1A 2RJ John Evelyn(Author)(Photos Taken: 10-Aug-2020)Link
Plaque Wording: "Dined at my Lord Treasurers the Earl of Southampton in Blomesbury, where he was building a noble square or piazza, a little towne" John Evelyn's diary 1665

Bloomsbury Square, Holborn, London WC1A 2RJ Charles James Fox(Statesman)(Photos Taken: 10-Aug-2020)Link

4 Taviton Street, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 0BT Noor Inayat Khan(Armed Forces)(Photos Taken: 29-Aug-2020)Link

13 Chenies Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7EYRangers War Memorial(World War History)(Photos Taken: 15-Oct-2020)Link

111 Great Russell Street, Fitzrovia, London WC1B 3NP Harold Moody(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 19-Nov-2020)Link

Gray's Inn, High Holborn, London WC1V 7PUGray's Inn(Trade Group)(Photos Taken: 07-Mar-2021)Link

St George's Church, Bloomsbury Way, Holborn, London WC1A 2SA Paul Mellon(Philanthropist)(Photos Taken: 19-Oct-2021)Link

St George's Church, Bloomsbury Way, Holborn, London WC1A 2SA Robert Bell(Armed Forces)(Photos Taken: 19-Oct-2021)Link

Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Charles Darwin(Scientist)(Photos Taken: 03-Jan-2022)Link

Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0PD Noor Inayat Khan(Armed Forces)(Photos Taken: 03-Jan-2022)Link

Wellcome Trust Centre, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3ARSt John's House(Religious Group)(Photos Taken: 25-Jan-2022)Link

15 Percy Circus, Kings Cross, London WC1X 9EE William Bartlett(Medical)(Photos Taken: 25-Feb-2022)Link

65 Kings Cross Road, London WC1X 9LWBagnigge House(Historical London)(Photos Taken: 11-May-2022)Link

239-241 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC1A 1BL Fanny Wilkinson(Misc)(Photos Taken: 15-Jun-2022)Link

6 Grenville Street, Fitzrovia, London WC1N 1LZ Sarah Parker Remond(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 12-Oct-2022)Link

SOAS University of London, Torrington Square, London WC1H 0XG Arielle Tse (Sculptor)Women in London University (Education)(Photos Taken: 20-Jan-2023)Link
Plaque Wording: I am rooted, but I flow Arielle Tse
This work commemorates the 150th anniversary of the UK's first admission of women into university education by the University of London
It was made possible by generous grants from the University's Convocation Trust and the University of London. November 2018

Tavistock Square Gardens, Euston, London WC1H 9EZSeven Seven Bombing(Crime and Terrorism)(Photos Taken: 17-May-2023)Link

Tavistock Square Gardens, London WC1H 9EZHiroshima Memorial(World War History)(Photos Taken: 21-May-2023)Link

Woburn House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9HQ Otto Schiff(Philanthropist)(Photos Taken: 21-May-2023)Link

University of SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XGThiruvalluvar(Philosopher)(Photos Taken: 12-Jul-2023)Link

Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4QG Bruno Vogel(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 19-Jul-2023)Link
Plaque Wording: Bruno Vogal Born Leipzig 29.9.1898 Died 5.4.87 Writer, humanist and friend of the oppressed

Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4QG Claudia Jones(Social Reformer)(Photos Taken: 19-Jul-2023)Link
Plaque Wording: Claudia Jones 1915-1964 A great fighter for liberation of humanity

Corams Fields, opposite 93 Guilford Street, Clerkenwell, London WC1N 1DN Thomas Coram (Philanthropist)Foundling Hospital (Charitable) Harold Harmsworth (1st Viscount Rothermere) (Press)(Photos Taken: 27-Sep-2023)Link
Plaque Wording: These grounds, the site of the Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 by Captain Thomas Coram, were offered for sale as housing land in 1926 when owing to changing social conditions the old Hospital was sold and demolished. After eight years of anxiety to its fate the site was eventually preserved for the use and welfare of the children of Central London by the generosity and vision of Harold Viscount Rothermere, by the efforts of the Foundling Site Appeal Council, by the co-operation of the governors of the Foundling Hospital and of the Education Committee of the London County Council, and by the enthusiasm of many thousands of donors, large and small, who contributed their money or their toil to the saving of these nine acres, henceforth to be known as Coram's Fields.

Brunswick Square Gardens, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1AXThe Brunswick Plane(Parks and Gardens)(Photos Taken: 21-Aug-2024)Link

Queen Square Gardens, Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AUQueen Square Zeppelin(World War History)(Photos Taken: 16-Oct-2024)Link
Plaque Wording: {illegible}On the night of the eighth of September 1915 a Zeppelin bomb fell and exploded on this spot. Although nearly 1000 people slept in the surrounding buildings no person was injured.

Queen Square Gardens, Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AU Sue Garner(Medical)(Photos Taken: 16-Oct-2024)Link

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Plaque Wording: In memory of Staff Nurse Sue Garner (1959 - 2001) from her friends and colleagues in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department, the National Hospital.

169 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8UE Joan Bartlett(Religious)(Photos Taken: 01-Jun-2025)Link

Camden Town Hall, 5 Judd Street, London WC1H 9JECaribbean Carnival(Historical London)(Photos Taken: 03-Jul-2025)Link

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