Sheffield blue plaque locations

[Chaddamp 0]

Hello

any one know how I can find out where all the blue plaque house are in and around Sheffield,ie where famous people lived such as Michael Palin etc etc

Hope you can help

Regards

Paul

[Runningman 142]

Hi Chaddamp

 

I will suggest 3 points of contact

 

Sheffield Central Library          The Town Hall reception      Sheffield City Council             

[lazarus 68]

3 hours ago, Chaddamp said:

Hello

any one know how I can find out where all the blue plaque house are in and around Sheffield,ie where famous people lived such as Michael Palin etc etc

Hope you can help

Regards

Paul

I don’t know who decides where blue plaques are placed, but the old trade directories of Sheffield give an insight  to where the great Sheffield names lived, on College Street, a street of small terraced houses, Samuel Plimsols mother lived in one of them, just round the corner on Clarkehouse Road, lived actor Patrick McGoohan as a child. I trace these houses of the movers and shakers of 19 th century Sheffield 

Edited February 5, 2020 by lazarus

[iamwoody 19]

English Heritage , go on their plaque schemes place and look under Yorkshire 

[Jim Hardie 523]

Here's one that I saw the other day.

 

Thorntons family home marked with blue plaque http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-14959320

[pattricia 574]

1 hour ago, lazarus said:

I don’t know who decides where blue plaques are placed, but the old trade directories of Sheffield give an insight  to where the great Sheffield names lived, on College Street, a street of small terraced houses, Samuel Plimsols mother lived in one of them, just round the corner on Clarkehouse Road, lived actor Patrick McGoohan as a child. I trace these houses of the movers and shakers of 19 th century Sheffield 

I saw Patrick McGoohan once when I popped into The Stone House one afternoon. He was reading a newspaper while sitting at a table. 

[lazarus 68]

His first job was working was in the old bank on George Street, now a cinema, in the 18th century it was a well used coffer house.

[Centrepin 0]

Didn't Charlie Peace come from Darnal near the rolling mills?

 

I remember him being in a comic in the 50s/60s

[Chaddamp 0]

9 hours ago, Chaddamp said:

many many thanks to you all !!

 

[nikki-red 307]

Theres a few listed in this article...

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/hidden-plain-sight-7-interesting-heritage-blue-plaque-sites-sheffield-520616 

[jaffa1 10]

3 hours ago, Centrepin said:

 

 

Edited February 5, 2020 by jaffa1

[Jim Hardie 523]

4 hours ago, Centrepin said:

Didn't Charlie Peace come from Darnal near the rolling mills?

 

I remember him being in a comic in the 50s/60s

I don't think he merits a blue plaque, lol.