Manchester
Blue, Red & Black Plaques
  
Blue
Plaques
The
Blue Plaques Scheme recognises individuals who have made a significant
contribution to the advancement of science, medicine, innovation,
business, literature, arts and media in and around Manchester.
Blue
Plaques are erected on buildings where great figures of the
past have lived or worked.
Anyone may nominate a person for a Blue Plaque, provided nominees
were born more than 100 years ago, or died more than 20 years
ago. To nominate your hero or heroine, email blueplaques@everygeneration.co.uk
Red Plaques
Red
Plaques are a later development, and are erected to celebrate
commemorate events of importance to the social history of the
City.
Black
Plaques
Black
Plaques are for buildings of special architectural or historic
interest.
The list
was based on that found on the Manchester City Council's official
website at www.manchester.gov.uk, which by now may be somewhat
out of date. However, these are the latest known to exist.
City of
Manchester Blue Plaques
Listed
Alphabetically:
- Adamson,
'Daniel - 'The Towers', Didsbury (aka the Shirley
Institute);
- Ainsworth,
William Harrison - former NatWest Bank, King Street;
- Aircrew
Cadets - Heaton Hall, Heaton Park;
- Alcock,
Captain Sir John - 6 Kingswood Road, Fallowfield;
- Alport
Lodge, site of - Deansgate & St John Street, City Centre;
- Barlow,
Edward - Cathedral Street, City Centre;
- Barton
Arcade & the Catenian Association - Barton Square/St Ann's
Square;
- Beith,
John Hay - Wilmslow Road, Rusholme;
- Bradford,
John - Cathedral Street, City Centre;
- Bradshaw,
Robert - Victoria Bridge Street, City Centre;
- Brereton,
Sir William - Didsbury Library;
- Bronte,
Charlottë - Boundary Lane;
- Brown,
Ford Madox - Addison Terrace, Victoria Park;
- Brown,
Lieut. Sir Arthur Whitten - 6 Oswald Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy;
- Burnett,
Frances Hodgson - 38 Cheetham Hill Road;
- Carroll,
Walter - 117 Lapwing Lane, Didsbury;
- Chadwick,
Edwin - 5 Kingfisher Close, Stockport Road, Longsight;
- Cobden,
Richard - County Court, Quay Street, City Centre;
- Cobden,
Richard - original Owen's College Building, University;
- Cockerell,
Charles Robert - King Street, City Centre;
- Dalton,
John - 36 George Street, City Centre;
- Early Methodist
Preaching Room - Blackfriars Street & Deansgate, City Centre;
- Engels,
Friedrich - Aberdeen House, University;
- Fairbairn,
Sir William - Arndale Centre, High Street, City Centre;
- Gaiety
Theatre - Peter Street, City Centre;
- Gaskell,
Elizabeth Cleghorn - 84 Plymouth Grove, Ardwick;
- Green,
Peter - Cathedral Street - City Centre;
- Gresley,
Sir Nigel - Railway Hotel, Dean Lane, Newton Heath;
- Hallé,
Sir Charles - Duxbury Square, Moss Side;
- Hallé,
Sir Charles - Addison Terrace, Victoria Park;
- Jones,
Ernest - Bow Chambers, Bow Lane;
- Kilburn,
Tom - Kilburn Building, Manchester University;
- Kingdon-Ward,
Frank - former 14 Heaton Road, Withington;
- Lane, Richard
- Grosvenor Street, All Saints, Chorlton-on-Medlock;
- Lee, James
Prince - Cathedral Street, City Centre;
- Manchester
Poor House - Spinningfield, Deansgate, City Centre;
- Manchester
Ship Canal, first meeting 1882 - 'The Towers' (aka Shirley
Institute), Wilmslow Road, Didsbury;
- Mitchell,
Hannah - 18 Ingham Street, Newton Heath;
- Owen, Robert
- Royal Exchange, St. Ann's Square, City centre;
- Pankhurst,
Emmeline - 62 Nelson Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock;
- Paulhan,
Louis - 25-27 Paulhan Road, Didsbury;
- Peterloo
Massacre - Free Trade Hall/Edwardian Hotel, Peter Street, City
Centre;
- Portico
Library - Mosley Street, City Centre;
- Prince
Rupert - Didsbury Library;
- Raffald,
Elizabeth - Marks & Spencer, Shambles Square, City Centre;
- Roe, Alliot
Verdon - Great Ancoats Street, City Centre;
- Rosworm,
John - Victoria Bridge Street, City Centre;
- Royce,
Frederick Henry - Charles Barry Crescent, Hulme;
- Rutherford,
Lord Ernest - Museum Building, Oxford Road, University;
- Sadler,
James - Corporation Street & Balloon Street, City Centre;
- Salford
Hundred Court - Crown Square, City Centre;
- Simon,
Lord and Lady - Wythenshawe Hall, Wythenshawe park;
- Smith,
Sir Harry - Daisy Bank Road, Victoria Park;
- Spring,
Howard - 26 Hesketh Avenue, West Didsbury;
- Stuart,
Charles Edward - Byrom Street & Artillery Street, City Centre;
- Temple,
William - Cathedral Street, City Centre;
- Valette,
Adolphe - former Manchester School of
Art, now Manchester Metropolitan University, Grosvenor Street,
All Saints, Chorlton-on-Medlock;
- Warre,
Thomas de la - Cathedral Street, City Centre;
- Weizmann,
Dr Chaim - Jewish Museum, 190 Cheetham Hill Road, Cheetham;
- Wesley,
Rev John - Central Hall, Oldham Street, City Centre;
- Wild, Sam
- 57 Birch Hall Lane, Rusholme;
- Wilkinson,
Ellen - Balsam Close, Brunswick, Ardwick;
- Wood, Edgar
- former Church of Christ Scientist, Daisy Bank Road, Victoria
Park;
- Worsley,
Major General Charles - Platt Hall, Rusholme;
- Wright,
Thomas - Sidney Street, All Saints, Chorlton-on-Medlock;
- York Hotel
- former NatWest, King Street, City Centre.
City
of Manchester Red Plaques
Listed
Alphabetically:
- British
Deaf History Society - Elizabeth House, St Peters Square, City
Centre;
- Catholic
Social Guild - Chorlton Street, City Centre;
- Commission
of the Peace - Magistrates Court, Crown Square, City Centre;
- Co-operative
Insurance Company - 103 Princess Street, City Centre;
- Cross Street
Chapel - Chapel Walks, Cross Street, City Centre;
- Fenian
Ambush - Hyde Road, Railway Bridge, Ardwick;
- First Aerodrome
in Manchester - Sports Pavilion, Hough End Playing Fields;
- First Automatic
Traffic Signals in the North West - Market Street, Cross Street,
City Centre;
- First Gas
Works - St Mary's Parsonage, City Centre;
- First Provincial
School of Anatomy - 70 Bridge Street, City Centre;
- Football
League - Royal Buildings, 124-130 Market Street, City Centre;
- Japanese
Mission to Manchester Lloyds Bank - Cheapside, City Centre;
- Junior
Art School - Platt Hall, Platt Fields Park, Fallowfield;
- Little
Ireland - Great Marlborough Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock;
- Manchester
City Football Club - Clowes Street, West Gorton;
- Manchester
United Football Club - Bank Street, Clayton;
- Manchester
United Football Club - Northampton Road, Newton Heath;
- Nuclear
Free City - Town Hall, Albert Square, City Centre;
- Nuclear
Free Zone - Town Hall Interior;
- Orford
Road Burial Ground - Seabrook Road/Orford Road Newton Heath;
- Palatine
Court - The Crown Court, Crown Square, Spinningfields;
- Pals Battalions,
Manchester Regiment - Main Entrance, Heaton Park, Bury;
- Pan African
Conference - former Chorlton Town Hall, Chorlton-on-Medlock;
- Peak District
& N Counties Footpaths Preservation Soc, St Georges House,
Peter Street, City Centre;
- Philips
Park, Upper Lodge;
- Platt Chapel
(aka Platt Unitarian Chapel), Fallowfield;
- Queens
Park - Upper Lodge, Harpurhey;
- Royal Hotel
- 124-130 Market Street, City Centre;
- Rugby League
- Hanging Ditch/Corporation Street, City Centre;
- School
of Chiropody - Upper Brook Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock;
- Shudehill
Fight - Arndale Centre, Shudehill, City Centre;
- Unemployed
of the 1930s - London Road, Fairfield Street, City Centre;
- Vine Street
School - Birley High School, Chichester Road, Hulme;
City
of Manchester Black Plaques
Listed
Alpha-Numerically:
- 4, 6 &
8 Bradley Street, City Centre;
- 69-77 Lever
Street, City Centre;
- Chethams
Hospital - Long Millgate, City Centre;
- Church
of Saint Ann - St Ann Street, City Centre;
- Church
of Saint Cross - Ashton New Road, Clayton;
- Liverpool
Road Station - Liverpool Road, Castlefield;
- Manchester
Cathedral - Fennel Street, City Centre;
- Manchester
Coat of Arms -Cannon Street/Corporation Street, City Centre;
- Soho Foundry
- Fragment in Peace Garden, Princess Street, Mosley Street,
City Centre;
- Spanish
& Portuguese Synagogue - Jewish Museum, 190 Cheetham Hill
Road, Cheetham Hill;
- Town Hall
- Albert Square, City Centre;
Blue Plaques around Greater Manchester Boroughs
Listed
Alpha-Numerically:
- Allingham,
Helen (1849 -1862) Victorian watercolour artist - Plaque located
at her former residence at 16 Market Street, Altrincham;
- Baillie,
Dame Isobel (1895-1983) - Blue Plaque located at 524 Stretford
Road, Old Trafford, the former residence of the soprano with
the Hallé Orchestra;
- Bateman,
John Frederick (1810 -1889) - surveyor and engineer. Blue Plaque
on air shaft at Mottram Tunnel;
- Bolt, Robert,
playwright - Plaque located at birthplace in Northenden Road,
Sale;
- Bradbury,
Helen, Local Artist - Blue Plaque at 3 Princes Street, Lees.
- Chadwick,
Roy - aeroplane designer (Lancaster Bomber) - Plaque located
at British Aerospace, Chadderton;
- Churchill,
Sir Winston, MP for Oldham 1900 - Plaque on Oldham Civic Centre;
- Duckenfield,
Colonel Robert of Dukinfield Hall, the Civil War hero - Blue
Plaque located at old Dukinfield Town Hall.
- Ireland,
Dr John, composer - Blue Plaque located at his birthplace at
Inglewood in St Margaret's Road, Bowdon;
- Kenney,
Annie, leading suffragette - Plaque at Lees Brook Mill, Lees,
Oldham;
- Leech,
Thomas Bosdin (1836 -1912), Mayor of Manchester - Plaque erected
in Humphrey Lane, Urmston, to commemorate his public service
and links with the Manchester Ship Canal.
- Massey,
George - Plaque located at the Unicorn Hotel, Altrincham, commemorating
the first gas-making plant in Altrincham;
- Richter,
Hans - composer-conductor of Hallé Orchestra - Plaque
located at his former home at The Firs, Bowdon;
- Rutherford,
Harry - local artist (190 -1985) - 2 Blue Plaques, at his former
home 17 Nelson Street, Hyde, and on Hyde Town Hall;
- Steptoe,
Dr Patrick - pioneer of invitro-fertilisation (IVF) - Blue Plaque
at Oldham Royal Infirmary;
- Turing,
Alan - computer science pioneer - Plaque located at Adlington
Road, Wilmslow;
- Walton,
Sir William, composer - Plaque at 93 Werneth Hall Road, Oldham;
We
welcome information about any other Blue, Red & Black
Plaques which we have missed around Greater Manchester Boroughs.
See
also: Roy Parke's Blue Plaques in Tameside web page at:
http://www.tameside.gov.uk/leisure/new/blue.htm.
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