"stands in the Regent's Place development, site of the demolished Osnaburgh Street. On 22 February 2014—on what would have been Williams' 88th birthday—an English Heritage blue plaque was unveiled at Farley Court off Marylebone Road, where Williams lived between 1963 and 1970 in Flat 62. Speaking at the ceremony, his ""Carry On"" co-star Barbara Windsor said: ""Kenny was a one off, a true original"". The Newquay Repertory Players (1948) in order of performance: The Dolphin Players (1948) in order of performance: Other plays: Kenneth Williams Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was an English actor, best"
"Matthew Lloyd Architects won a RIBA London Award in 2013, and a RIBA English Heritage Award for Sustaining the Historic Environment, also in 2013. The RSA devised a scheme for commemorating the links between famous people and buildings, by placing plaques on the walls — these continue today as ""blue plaques"" which have been administered by a range of government bodies. The first of these plaques was, in fact, of red terracotta erected outside a former residence of Lord Byron (since demolished). The Society erected 36 plaques until, in 1901, responsibility for them was transferred to the London County Council"
"later 7 October 2013 it was re-released with smaller packaging. All the movies contained in the collection are also available to buy individually. Since 2013, StudioCanal has begun to release a number of the ""Carry On"" films on Blu-ray. starting with ""Carry On Screaming!"" (21 October 2013), ""Carry On Cleo"" (5 May 2014), ""Carry On Cowboy"" (2 June 2014) and ""Carry On Jack"" (7 July 2014). Carry On (franchise) The Carry On series primarily consists of 31 British comedy motion pictures (1958–92), four Christmas specials, a television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays. The"
"chalet number 2 at Holywell. Eastbourne Blue Plaques Eastbourne Blue Plaques is a scheme for erecting blue plaques in Eastbourne, England. It was implemented in 1993 following a suggestion to Eastbourne Borough Council by Eastbourne Civic Society (now Eastbourne Society). The joint project involves the mounting of commemorative plaques on buildings associated with famous people. The principles for selection are broadly those already established by English Heritage for such plaques in London. The first was erected in November 1994 in Milnthorpe Road at the former home of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer. The artist and illustrator Mabel Lucie Attwell"
"included Charlie Drake memorabilia and artwork made of chocolate and candy. In 2013, Read, along with three friends, formed the British Plaque Trust, a charity established to commemorate deceased achievers in show business, sport and the general arts by unveiling blue plaques on buildings with which they were associated. The organisation aims to act alongside the work in London of English Heritage who have stated that they are ""restructuring"" their plaque scheme. In the same year, he was one of the event presenters at Concert At The Kings in All Cannings, Wiltshire. Mike Read Michael David Kenneth Read (born 1"
"a total of £375,969 in prize money. In 2014 up to 4 September they have had 13 winners, 9 second places and 13 third places netting £177,991 in total prize money. In 2011, Hay and his wife Fitri purchased Birch Grove, the former home of Harold Macmillan in West Sussex. The estate also includes a private golf course. In 2009, Hay was reported to have made a substantial donation to his former university, Strathclyde's Insititute of Pharmacy and BioMedical Sciences, in support of a 'Drug Discovery' campaign. Hay is listed as a ‘Diamond Star Patron’ for the Dubai Community Theatre"
"standing today. Other scenes were filmed on and around St Mary's Road (including St Mary's Church) and the surrounding streets, Ealing W5. The store used was F.H. Rowse department store. The building was demolished in the early 1980s and was situated on the junction of Green Man Lane and Uxbridge Road in Ealing. The fourth film in the classic British comedy film series, Carry On Constable premiered at London’s Plaza cinema on 25 February 1960. Carry On Constable Carry On Constable is the fourth film from the ""Carry On"" series, with 31 entries. It was released in February 1960. Of"
"Eastbourne Blue Plaques Eastbourne Blue Plaques is a scheme for erecting blue plaques in Eastbourne, England. It was implemented in 1993 following a suggestion to Eastbourne Borough Council by Eastbourne Civic Society (now Eastbourne Society). The joint project involves the mounting of commemorative plaques on buildings associated with famous people. The principles for selection are broadly those already established by English Heritage for such plaques in London. The first was erected in November 1994 in Milnthorpe Road at the former home of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer. The artist and illustrator Mabel Lucie Attwell is listed under her married"
"unveiled a Blue Plaque at 34 Montagu Square: ""John Lennon, 1940–1980, Musician and songwriter, lived here in 1968"". Beatles' biographer, Hunter Davies, started the unveiling ceremony, with Rod Davis, from Lennon's first group, The Quarrymen, in the gathering. Ono said: I am very honoured to unveil this blue plaque and thank English Heritage for honouring John in this way. This particular flat has many memories for me and is a very interesting part of our history. In what would have been John's 70th year, I am grateful to you all for commemorating John and this particular part of his London"
"range of people commemorated. The GLC erected 252 plaques, the subjects including Sylvia Pankhurst, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Mary Seacole. In 1986, the GLC was disbanded and the blue plaques scheme passed to English Heritage. English Heritage erected more than 300 plaques in London. In January 2013 English Heritage suspended proposals for plaques owing to funding cuts. The National Trust's chairman stated that his organisation might step in to save the scheme. In the event the scheme was relaunched by English Heritage in June 2014 with private funding (including support from a new donors' club, the Blue Plaques Club, and from"
"He is an ambassador for the housing and homeless charity Shelter, as well as a Building Community ambassador for the Prince's Foundation. He is also a passionate supporter of Sunderland A.F.C. He still has family in Blackfell, Washington, and Sunderland, and visits the area at least two or three times a year. In July 2012, Clarke carried the Olympic torch through Camden after his brother-in-law Swiggy Drummond, who was the original candidate for the honour, died of cancer. In January 2014, Clarke became the youngest person ever to be awarded honorary membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Hon"
"Is but also Hidden Paintings, Inside Out London and Inside Out Anglia. He has appeared on Rogue Traders, Cash in the Attic, Cash in the Celebrity Attic, Live from Studio 5, X-Ray and was the Consultant on the hit Channel 4 documentary 'Elizabeth Taylor - Auction of a lifetime' having thought the idea up in the first place. Curtis Dowling appeared on BBC Breakfast TV in September 2013 uncovering a John Constable painting and is now host of the new Channel 4 15-part TV series Hoarder SOS which ran on Channel 4 in October and November 2016 The show was"
"arts programme in 1988, and also performed live on stage in November 1987. Further performances were held in London at Sadler's Wells in 1988, and again in 2009. In February 2011 a bronze statue of Lowry was installed in the basement of his favourite pub, Sam's Chop House. On 26 June 2013 a retrospective opened at the Tate Britain in London, his first there, scheduled to run until 20 October. In 2014 his first solo exhibition outside the UK was held in Nanjing, China. Lowry was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by the University of Manchester in 1945,"
"the 19th century Felling mining disasters. In 2017 in Aldershot in Hampshire the Aldershot Civic Society unveiled its first blue plaque to comedian and actor Arthur English at the house where he had been born. It is intended that this will be the first in a series dedicated to notable local people or historic buildings. There also exist several nationwide schemes sponsored by special-interest bodies, which erect plaques at sites or buildings with historical associations within their particular sphere of activity. Commemorative plaque schemes (not all of them using blue plaques) also exist most notably in the cities of Paris,"
"London. On 20 May 2013, a commemorative blue plaque was unveiled outside Aston House on New Road in Llanelli, where Squires and her family took up residence in her fifteenth year. Financed by Roger Moore, the plaque had been created 18 months previously. The unveiling was performed by Ruth Madoc, who was portraying the older Dorothy Squires in the play, ""Say It With Flowers"", by Meic Povey and Johnny Tudor. Following its premiere engagement at the Sherman Cymru Theatre, Cardiff, in 2013, the play toured across Wales. A previous staged tribute to her, ""Dorothy Squires: Mrs Roger Moore"", written by"
"the BT London Live event along with Hyde Park during the London 2012 Olympic Games. The park has in recent years gone through a £12 million refurbishment and many of the park's old features have been reinstated or repaired. It has won the Green Flag People's Choice Award for the most popular public green space in 2012, 2014 and 2015, no other park in the UK has won the award three times. The park is Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The Crown Estate purchased which were laid out by notable London planner and architect"
"outside the Snappy Snaps store in Hampstead, North London where singer George Michael crashed in the early hours of Sunday 4 July 2010. The newspaper stated it planned to put similar plaques in sites around the UK to mark events that had proved popular in the UK Tabloid Press. In England, the London blue plaques scheme, which is administered by English Heritage, has been running for over 140 years and is thought to be the oldest of its kind in the world. Plaques are attached to buildings to commemorate their association with important occupants or events. A range of other"
"by Robert Crewe-Milnes, Earl Crewe, giving it its current name. The house is part of the Saudi Arabian Embassy. Mayfair has many blue plaques on buildings, due to the proliferation of important and recognised residents. Standing at the corner of Chesterfield Street and Charles Street, one can see plaques for William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews (later King William IV), Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, the writer Somerset Maughan and Regency-era fashion icon Beau Brummell. While there are no London Underground stations inside Mayfair, there are several on the boundaries. Marble Arch, Bond Street and Oxford Circus along Oxford Street"
"program has mostly included street artists who have drawn and painted on hotel doors, stairwells, and other areas, in addition to exhibiting work in the lobby. Blek le Rat, who was in residence in 2014, was mistakenly nearly arrested after police saw him stenciling on a hotel door. The summer 2016 artist in residence was Berlin-based street artist Tavar Zawacki aka Above (artist). In September 2016, the Quin commissioned Chaz Barrisson, half of the street art duo London Police, to paint two of his signature grinning characters on the wall by the service doors of the hotel. The London Police"
"London in 2012. Alan Stanton was elected a Royal Academician in 2009 and both Alan and Paul are both Royal Designers of Industry, They each received an OBE for their services to architecture in 2014. The practice has developed its portfolio from an initial focus on museums and galleries towards a wide variety of projects, all of which demonstrate its overarching objective of putting the user’s experience of space, light and materials at the forefront of the agenda, as well as creating places that sensitively respond to their cultural, social and physical context. Current projects include: UCL East Marshgate, a"
"before moving to The Queens Hotel in Leeds on 20 September 2013. The Awards were then taken to the city's capital where the 2014 ceremony was held in The Hurlingham Club in London on 26 September. The National Diversity Awards 2015 took place in The Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool on 18 September. Since its launch in 2012, the National Diversity Awards has attracted support from several celebrity patrons who either represent or support the equality and diversity sector. Amongst the National Diversity Awards celebrity patrons are contemporary R&B and hip hop artist, Misha B, Peter Tatchell; wheelchair Paralympic Quad double"
"which have then been inscribed by his wife, Sue, at their home in Cornwall. English Heritage plans to erect an average of twelve new blue plaques each year in London. Many are unveiled by prominent public people: for example, in 2010 a plaque dedicated to John Lennon was unveiled in Montagu Square by Yoko Ono, at the house where the couple shot the cover of the album """". After being conceived by politician William Ewart in 1863, the scheme was initiated in 1866 by Ewart, Henry Cole and the Society of Arts (now the Royal Society of Arts), which erected"
"shortly before his death. The film's official trailer quotes Chapman saying, ""This is the best film I've been in since I died."" In September 2012, a British Comedy Society blue plaque, to commemorate Chapman, was unveiled at The Angel pub in Highgate, North London, by Jones, Palin, Barry Cryer, Ray Davies and Carol Cleveland. Palin said, ""Highgate was his patch and he should be celebrated because he was a very good, brilliant, funny, nice, wise, kind man, who occasionally drank too much."" In December 2014 a green plaque funded by Leicestershire County Council was placed on Chapman's former home in"
"Royal Palaces and the Shakespeare's Globe trust. He lives in Putney, London, is married to Jane and has four children. Bruce Carnegie-Brown Bruce Neil Carnegie-Brown (born December 1959) is a British insurance broker and former investment banker who has been Chairman of the insurance market Lloyd’s of London since June 2017, and of the price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com Group since April 2014. Carnegie-Brown was born in December 1959 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. His father was a tobacco executive, and the family migrated often, including time in Libya and Jordan. In 1978, he began a degree in English Language and Literature"
"Blue plaque A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker. The term is used in the United Kingdom in two different senses. It may be used narrowly and specifically to refer to the ""official"" scheme administered by English Heritage, and currently restricted to sites within Greater London; or it may be used less formally to encompass a number of similar schemes administered by organisations throughout the UK."
"of London plaques mark the sites of former buildings. Many of the 32 London boroughs also now have their own schemes, running alongside the English Heritage scheme. Westminster City Council runs a green plaque scheme, each plaque being sponsored by a group with a particular interest in its subject. The London Borough of Southwark started its own blue plaque scheme in 2003, under which the borough awards plaques through popular vote following public nomination: living people may be commemorated. The London Borough of Islington has a very similar green heritage plaque scheme, initiated in 2010. Other plaques may be erected"
"be successful. This is composed of 9 people from various disciplines from across the country. The panel is chaired by Professor Ronald Hutton, and includes former Poet Laureate Professor Sir Andrew Motion and buildings historian Professor Gavin Stamp. The actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry was formerly a member of the panel, and wrote the foreword to the book ""Lived in London: Blue Plaques and the Stories Behind Them"" (2009). Roughly a third of proposals are approved in principle, and are placed on a shortlist. Because the scheme is so popular, and because a lot of detailed research has to be"
"the station end of the 'up' (London-bound) platform was closed and dismantled shortly afterwards. The box can today be seen in use at Eythorne railway station on the East Kent Railway. The station was a filming location in the 1944 film ""A Canterbury Tale"", where it was called ""Chillingbourne"". Charles Hawtrey (of the ""Carry On"" films) played the porter. The station now has few facilities. The station is now unmanned but was staffed when run by British Rail and was APTIS-equipped until December 1992. Nowadays, a PERTIS passenger-operated ticket machine suffices. This issues 'Permits to Travel' and is situated at"
"Ali, celebrates his momentous world heavyweight championship title with controversial civil rights activist Malcolm X, along with influential singer songwriter Sam Cooke and NFL champion footballer Jim Brown. The action takes place in a Miami hotel room, watched over by Nation of Islam security. Kwame Kwei-Armah Kwame Kwei-Armah (born 24 March 1967 in Hillingdon, London), born Ian Roberts, is a British actor, playwright, director, singer and broadcaster. In 2005 he became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End of London. (Ray Harrison Graham's Fringe First award-winning play ""GARY"" played at the Arts Theatre in"
"starring Damian Williams, was produced by Franklin Productions and toured the UK in 2013. In 2014, with the support of The Tommy Cooper Estate and Cooper's daughter Victoria, a new tribute show ""Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show"" commemorating 30 years since the comedian's death was produced by ""Hambledon Productions"". The production moved to the ""Museum of Comedy"" in Bloomsbury, London from September 2014 and continues to tour extensively throughout the UK. In May 2016, a blue plaque in his memory was unveiled at Cooper's former home in Barrowgate Road, Chiswick, London. In August it was announced that the"
"central atrium and lift system affords the freeholder greater flexibility, permitting the later installation of bridges and access ways internally to meet changing tenancy needs. The building's design and management processes include waste management and 'biomatics' to deliver a ""zero to landfill"" policy. Lighting throughout uses techniques including proximity detection to minimise unnecessary energy use. According to the property's managing agents CBRE, the Building has ""achieved a BREEAM Very Good rating through its many sustainable design features"". The City of London's Clean City Awards programme granted the building Gold Award status in January 2015. The developer faced some controversy for"
"7 June 2015, a blue plaque was unveiled at his home at 12 Rawlinson Road. He was also an atheist. The Richard Doll Building, designed by Nicholas Hare Architects in 2006, was named in his honour and opened shortly before his death. It currently houses the Clinical Trial Service Unit, Cancer Epidemiology Unit and National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit. The building received a prestigious RIBA Award in 2007. A plaque inside the building contains the following quotation from Doll: One of the buildings of the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, London is also named after Sir Richard Doll. After Richard"
"for display in the Museum & Art Gallery; 4) the remainder of his estate, which was valued at £24,180:18:6 (£566,253 in 2018), to be transferred to the University of Birmingham for the setting up of the ""Haywood Scholarship"", which exists today within the College of Arts and Law as the Haywood Doctoral Scholarship. On 2nd November 2018, the Birmingham Civic Society unveiled a Blue Plaque to William Haywood, which is located on the site of his practice offices at 37 Bennett's Hill, Birmingham. At that time the Chairman of the Society announced the inauguration of the William Haywood Prize for"