21 New Blue Plaques

After receiving 50 suggestions for new blue plaques, CCS has drawn up a shortlist of 21 notable individuals and sites it hopes to honour with commemorative plaques.

Figures include the WWI fighter ace Mick Mannock, the renowned Tudor bluestocking Margaret Roper, Stephen Gray, the ‘father of electricity’, airline whizzFreddie Laker, the socialite fraudster Mary Carlton, pioneering doctor George Rigden, James Six, the inventor of the max-min thermometer, the Via Francigena and Archbishop Sigeric, The Mayflower backer Robert Cushman, the rebel Hermit Blewbeard, Nicholas Faunt, the mayor executed in the Buttermarket, the famous royalist MP & judge John Finch, Sidney Cooper, brilliant cricketer Fuller Pilch, Calloway’s Silk Weaving Mill, pioneer printer John Mycell, Isaac Nathan, the ‘father of Australian Music’, BBC founder member Sydney Bligh, the Canterbury Scene music venue, and Jacob the Jew, the banker who helped ransom Richard the Lionheart.

All being well, the plaques should be in place in early 2027.