Blue Plaque Criteria
As a rule we try and follow the English Heritage guidelines for erecting blue plaques. These are:
Nominated figures must have been dead for 20 years or have passed the centenary of their birth.
Plaques
can only be erected on the actual building inhabited by the nominated
figure, not the site where the building once stood (we have not always
been able to conform to this).
Buildings marked with plaques must be visible from the public highway.
Nominated figures must also meet one or more of the following criteria:
Be considered eminent by a majority of members of their own profession or calling.
Have made an important positive contribution to human welfare or happiness.
Be recognisable to the well-informed passer-by.
Deserve national recognition.
Have resided in a locality for a significant period-of time or importance- within their life and work.
Scarborough Blue Plaques |
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Anne Bronte writer Grand Hotel, St Nicholas Cliff
Henry Barlow Carter artist 16 York Place
Sir George Cayley 'father' of aeronautics Paradise House, Paradise
Sir Edwin Cooper architect Nelson St
Sir Edward James Harland shipbuilder M&S Newborough
Stephen Joseph founder of theatre in round Public Library, Vernon Rd
Charles Laughton actor The Victoria, Westborough
Frederic, Lord Leighton artist Brunswick Centre
Wilfred Owen poet Clifton Hotel, Queens Pde
Sir George & Lady Ida Sitwell, Edith, Osbert & Sacheverell Wood End, The Crescent*
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell author Bedford Hotel, Belvoir Terr
Harry William Smith engineer 41 Westbourne Grove
William 'Strata' Smith 'father' of English geology 1 Newborough
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This one is attributed to the Borough of Scarborough rather than
Scarborough & District Civic Society though it replaces an Civic Society ceramic one which possibly got damaged
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Blue Plaques