Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme
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Commemorating remarkable people and highly significant events and locations throughout Oxfordshire since 2001 https://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/
Here are all the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques that were unveiled in 2025. Unusually, they are all outside the city (although the one to Sir Muirhead Bone is only just outside)
September 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Here are all the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques that were unveiled in 2025. Unusually, they are all outside the city (although the one to Sir Muirhead Bone is only just outside)
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953 www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
September 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953 www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque was unveiled in Thame this morning to John Henry Smythe, an RAF officer who became one of Britain’s first black barristers and a QC, and then served as Attorney General of Sierra Leone www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/smyt...
July 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque was unveiled in Thame this morning to John Henry Smythe, an RAF officer who became one of Britain’s first black barristers and a QC, and then served as Attorney General of Sierra Leone www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/smyt...
More about Lord Berners who in 1935 commissioned Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, to build the 104 ft Faringdon Folly Tower here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bern...
July 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
More about Lord Berners who in 1935 commissioned Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, to build the 104 ft Faringdon Folly Tower here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bern...
More about Chiang Yee here on the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme’s website. His plaque includes his name in Chinese lettering: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/chia...
July 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
More about Chiang Yee here on the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme’s website. His plaque includes his name in Chinese lettering: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/chia...
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the antiquarian and stonemason John Kibble was unveiled at Finstock yesterday (5 July 2025): www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/kibb...
July 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the antiquarian and stonemason John Kibble was unveiled at Finstock yesterday (5 July 2025): www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/kibb...
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to Dylan Thomas was unveiled yesterday (7 June 2025) at the Manor House in South Leigh, where he lived while working on “Under Milk Wood”: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/thom...
June 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
An Oxfordshire Blue Plaque to Dylan Thomas was unveiled yesterday (7 June 2025) at the Manor House in South Leigh, where he lived while working on “Under Milk Wood”: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/thom...
On 17 May 2025 an Oxfordshire blue plaque to Herbert Payne, campaigner for Oxfordshire’s first council houses, was unveiled at his former home at 71 Queens Road, Banbury
May 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
On 17 May 2025 an Oxfordshire blue plaque to Herbert Payne, campaigner for Oxfordshire’s first council houses, was unveiled at his former home at 71 Queens Road, Banbury
Then coincidentally the Tuesday edition of “Great British Railways” starts (at 02.29mins) with a piece on Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who also has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque (on 63 Lonsdale Road): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
May 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Then coincidentally the Tuesday edition of “Great British Railways” starts (at 02.29mins) with a piece on Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who also has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque (on 63 Lonsdale Road): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
At 22:30mins on the same programme, Portillo visits the MG Car Club at Kimber House in Abingdon where he learns about Cecil Kimber, who has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque on the Boundary House pub there: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
May 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
At 22:30mins on the same programme, Portillo visits the MG Car Club at Kimber House in Abingdon where he learns about Cecil Kimber, who has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque on the Boundary House pub there: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
There’s an interesting piece about Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque on 94 Woodstock Road, in the Monday edition of Michael Portillo’s repeated “Great British Railways” series on BBC4 this week. Here on the i-Player at 04.41mins: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
May 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
There’s an interesting piece about Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque on 94 Woodstock Road, in the Monday edition of Michael Portillo’s repeated “Great British Railways” series on BBC4 this week. Here on the i-Player at 04.41mins: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
You can see William Buckland's Oxfordshire blue plaque on the Old Rectory in Islip www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/buck...
March 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You can see William Buckland's Oxfordshire blue plaque on the Old Rectory in Islip www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/buck...
For more about Andrea Angel, see his Oxfordshire Blue Plaques page: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/ange...
January 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
For more about Andrea Angel, see his Oxfordshire Blue Plaques page: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/ange...
The unveiling season for this year is now over, and here are the new 2024 plaques. The colour varies according to the amount of sunlight
November 17, 2024 at 3:36 PM
The unveiling season for this year is now over, and here are the new 2024 plaques. The colour varies according to the amount of sunlight