PLAQUE

Rackhams Stores, Temple Row

Founder of the General Hospital

Crescent Tower, Brindley Walk

Political Reformer

Harborne Swimming Baths, Lordswood Rd.,

Poet

Harborne

Central Avenue, The Austin Village,

Built by Sir Herbert Austin to house his

Northfield, Birmingham B31

workers in the 1914 / 1918 War

Metchley Abbey, Metchley Rd., Harborne

Composer

Baskerville House, Centenary Square, Broad Street

Printer and publisher

104 / 106 Lombard Street, Balsall Heath

Archbishop of Canterbury

Lord Mayor's Parlour, The Council House,

For the building of the International

Victoria Square.

Convention Centre, Symphony Hall,

The National Indoor Arena and Centenary Square

Halifax Building Society, Colmore Row

Flats on the corner of Gravelly Hill and

Pioneer Doctor of Medicine.

Hillaries Rd., Erdington

1) corner of Steelhouse Lane and Priory Queensway

Engineer, inventor and industrial pioneer

2) Soho House, Soho Avenue, Handsworth

Rectory Farm, Ragley Drive, Church Rd., Sheldon.

Bibliophile

11 / 12 Bennetts Hill, City Centre

Artist

Bournville Village Green, (above the entrance

Estate created by George Cadbury

to the "round house" Estate Building

Industrialist and Philanthropist

The Lodge at Cannon Hill Park, Edgbaston

Commemorating Louisa Anne Ryland

Road entrance

Giles House, 83, Harborne Road, Edgbaston

Statesman

Highbury Hall, Yew Tree Lane, Moseley

Statesman

Edgbaston High School, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston

Prime Minister

On the site of the original Children's Hospital,

1862 to 1962

Ladywood Road (near Five Ways on the Hagley Road)

On the wall of a building in Aston Road North

Author

(until recently, the premises of T Startin Ltd.,

Vauxhall Dealers)

116, Greenfield Road, Harborne

Artist and landscape painter

On Rackhams Stores, Temple Row, City Centre

Founder of the Birmingham Medical School

Carrs Lane Church, Carrs Lane, City Centre

Orator and non-conformist Minister

Church Road, Edgbaston

Children

Reception Area, The Dental Hospital,

St Chad's Queensway, Birmingham 4

Gala Bingo Club, Birchfield Road, Perry Barr

Founder of the Odeon Cinema Chain

(the first Odeon Cinema)

The AA (Automobile Association) Offices, New

Edward VI High School 

Street, City Centre

152, Osborn Road, Sparkbrook

Comedian

Bell Street subway, near New Street Station and

The Poet of Bell Street

the Bull Ring

Repertory Theatre, Centenary Square, Broad Street

Surgeon and founder of Birmingham Saturday Fund.

On the front of the Old Grammar School, in the

Schoolmaster, preacher and bibliophile

Churchyard on Kings Norton Green

On the original site of the hospital which is now the

Offices of CENTRO, Summer Lane, Birmingham

146, Hagley Road and also in Lionel Street and

Postal reformer

Severn Street

High Street, City Centre

Social Reformer

On the corner of what is now the new Children's

Pioneer radiologist

Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham

Southam Road, Hall Green

Comedian

Birmingham Town Hall, Victoria Square

Architect

High Street, facing New Street in the City Centrre

The first Historian of Birmingham

Above the doorway of the Forward Trust Building

American Essayist

Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston , Birmingham

There is a plaque high on the wall of the Old Repertory

Founder and Patron of Birmingham Repertory

Theatre in Station Street and a bronze bust and plaque

inside the new Repertory Theatre in Centenary Square

249 Bristol Road (what used to be Edgbaston College)

Co-founder of the Birmingham Post Newspaper

Grove Park, Grove Lane, Harborne

Civic Leader and Educationalist

On the Birmingham and Midland Institute, Margaret

Composer and Musician

Street, City Centre

On the front of the Abbey National Bank, Broad Street,

Confectioner and philanthropist

Five Ways

Ladywell Walk, Digbeth

An early water supply for the City of Birmingham

On the front wall of a company called MBC Metal

The Lanchester brothers designed and built

Powders, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook. (There are

also commemorative plaques on 30 Dyott Road and

128 Oxford Road, Moseley)

Above the doorway at 8, Ampton Road, Edgbaston

The game was originated and played by

Major Gem, a solicitor and sportsman

Between Albert St. and Carrs Lane, Dale End, Birmingham

The original branch of this bank started by

Mr Samuel Lloyd and Mr Taylor in 1765

Birmingham Women's Hospital, Queen Elizabeth

Senior Surgeon, President of the Royal College

Medical Centre, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15

of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

On the front of the Student Hostels, Westbourne Road,

Scientist

Edgbaston

On the front of Three Star House, Carver Street,

Founder of the Lucas Electrical Industries

Ladywood, Birmingham

Moor Street, Queensway

Forum Complex, Central Library, Chamberlain Square

Penmaker and Educationalist

City Centre (this plaque is temporarily in storage as a

result of building work - to be re-erected shortly)

In the grounds of St Cuthbert's Church, Reed

The site of the airfield used to test-fly many

Square, Castle Vale

thousands of locally made Spitfires in

World War Two

Alongside the main gateway to the Oratory Church, Hagley

Founder of the English Oratory

Road, Edgbaston

Bracebridge Street, Aston, Birmingham

On the side of the Church of St Michael and St Joseph

Scholar, Scientist, Theologian and discoverer

New Meeting House Lane, Birmingham

of oxygen

Bath Row, Birmingham

(Accident Hospital)

The first Rotary Club in the Midlands

The plaque commemorates the mill

and its association with Matthew

Boulton and J R R Tolkien

144, Poplar Avenue, Harborne

Field Marshall, Viscount Slim of Burma

Artist and Craftsman

Alongside the door of 13, Charlotte Road, Edgbaston

Jaguar Car Company, Castle Bromwich

Commemorates the many fighter aircraft which

were built on this site between 1939 and 1946

Taylor Memorial Home, Grange Road, Erdington

Pioneer photographer

Norton Tower, Civic Close

Pioneer Surgeon and Gynaecologist

26, Highfield Road, Edgbaston

Father and son, Art teacher and Potter

There are two plaques, one in Swallow Street and one at

Technical School

Aston University

On the first floor of the Charters Building, formerly the

Woolworth building, New Street, City Centre

Current location uncertain. Was on the wall of Lucas

Founder of the National Union of General and

Industries, Great King Street, Hockley - recently demolished

Municipal Workers

There are plaques to Tolkien at 1, Duchess Place,

Author

Ladywood, at the Plough and Harrow Hotel, Hagley Road,

Edgbaston, and in Highfield Road, Edgbaston.

Above the entrance to the Members Stand, at the County

Cricket Ground, Edgbaston

17, Regent Place, the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham.

Engineer, Inventor and

Industrial Engineer

Opposite Rackhams Store, Corporation Street, City Centre

Edgbaston Golf Club, Church Road, Edgbaston

Physician and botanist

105, Harborne Road, Edgbaston

Novelist, Poet and Physician