Open Plaques

NEWS: Analysis of Open Plaques data featured in @heraldscotland today shows only 3 out of 91 #Glasgow plaques & 52 out of 377 #Edinburgh plaques commemorate women [we've corrected the slight errors in the story's figures] heraldscotland.com/news/18385350.…

@openplaques San Sebastian. Ones I found last month. openplaques.org/places/es/area…

Great photo of music producer, pioneer of sound recording technology & "Telstar Man" Joe Meek's plaque on the flat where he lived on Holloway Rd openplaques.org/plaques/1755 twitter.com/JoeMeekSociety…

July 10th 1962 NASA launches the Telstar 1 satellite, the first active communications satellite, inspiring the Tornadoes' instrumental hit "Telstar" later that year.

@60sPsychJukebox @joel_ca_c x.com/openplaques/st…

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 Oct? 1751 #Dublin-7 July 1816). 7, moved to London.👨‍🎓English Grammar, Grafton St; Harrow. Satirist, poet, playwright, owner @TheatreRoyalDL, Whig MP 32 yrs. Treasurer of Navy. 🪦Poets' Corner @wabbey. dib.ie/biography/sher… youtube.com/watch?v=rK6SK-…

@orford Thanks Andrew, will try that, but the reality is vast majority of users (including us) mainly use the mobile app. Just tried accessing that data on the app in our pinned tweet and no facility to see who liked it. Why do they think this is a good idea, why add difficulties? :(

A tweet of one's own. A shock indeed. But you worried me there about one's own tweets from way back. However, I have checked: on the web browser version, go to an old liked-tweet from yourself and click the ellipsis (…) and select view post engagements, then click the likes tab.

Likes are private now - so what's the point of bookmarks? And you can only know who liked yr post via notifications... what about posts more than a few week old? Unusable & insane. Can it get any worse?

@benmckenna @subtopian The People for Portland Rd will have justice :)

Further niche tourism.

Forge Mill, Redditch @openplaques openplaques.org/plaques/60195

The Norton plaque @openplaques at the National Motorcycle Museum. Apparently formerly located at Bracebridge Street, Aston, Birmingham. openplaques.org/plaques/1594

Today’s the day! A blue plaque to Austin Wright will be unveiled at 1:30pm today in Poppleton (come along!) If you want to know more about Austin Wright, you can do so here: yorkcivictrust.co.uk/austin-wright-…

The #JamesBaldwin blue plaque is unveiled. @hackneycitizen @hackneygazette

A fantastic morning unveling the blue plaque in memory of James Baldwin's visit to the CLR James library in 1985. Great speeches, great crowd, great vibe. With thanks to @NubianJak @blackhistwalker

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#thicktrunktuesday Shropshire, this is wonderful 🤩 x.com/ticlme/status/… @AncientYewGroup @godsacre @arborsmarty @Safernoc934 @keeper_of_books @mathilebrandts @greenachiever @AncientTreesATF @shrewsmorris @ShropCouncil @TreeStrategist

This #thicktrunktuesday has been 3000 years in the making 🤩 #GreatTreesof West Sussex #GreatTrees of Britain #GTOB @AncientTreesATF @sdnpa @keeper_of_books @ricardorichards @BuffDavis @johntree1981 @RGE_Art @TweetForTheMany @mathilebrandts @arborsmarty

A commemorative plaque dedicated to Devlin’s Pub was unveiled early this morning by the Lord Mayor of Dublin. The building which was the original site for Devlin’s Pub on Parnell Street was an important meeting venue for GHQ Intelligence from 1919 to 1921. Read more about the history of the building here: dublincity.ie/news/dublin-ci…

Tudor World - Sheep Street, Stratford-upon-Avon. They have moved The Shrieve's House blue plaque into the cobbled courtyard. @openplaques openplaques.org/plaques/11991