Plaque
Records tagged with Type of Memorial: Plaque
Plaque to Marjory Skea or Corrigall
Submitted by Rose on 31 August 2012 - 4:47pm
Revised: 23 October 2012 - 11:21am — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
STROMNESS PUBLIC LIBRARY /
THE GIFT OF THE LATE /
MARJORY SKEA, OR CORRIGAL /
STROMNESS /
1905
Material:
Metal
Location:
On the east gable of Stromness Public Library
2 Hellihole Road
Stromness, KW16 3DY
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Plaque to Barbara and Mary Walker at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 18 August 2012 - 6:41pm
Revised: 20 August 2012 - 12:41pm — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
IN
GRATEFUL
MEMORY
BARBARA AND MARY WALKER
OF COATES THROUGH WHOSE
MUNIFICENCE THIS CATHEDRAL
WAS ERECTED AD 1873-1879
THE SPIRES WHICH CROWN THE
WEST TOWERS ADDED
AD 1913-1917
ARCHt SIR GILBERT SCOTT R A
FOR SPIRES C M OLDRID SCOTT
BUILDER EDWIN C MORGAN
OF
Material:
bronze
Location:
St Mary's Episcopal Church - near entrance to the church, inside vestibule on north side.
Palmerston Place
Edinburgh, EH12 5AW
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Plaque on 'Mrs Humphrey's House'
Submitted by Rose on 6 August 2012 - 4:47pm
Revised: 7 August 2012 - 8:56am — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
MRS HUMPHREY’S HOUSE
TEMPORARY HOSPITAL
1835-1836
FOR SCURVY RIDDEN WHALE
MEN WHO HAD BEEN
TRAPPED IN THE ICE
FOR MONTHS
Location:
On the side of a building in Stromness
Back Road
Stromness
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Heritage Trail Plaque to Elsie Inglis
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 31 July 2012 - 9:01pm
Revised: 30 August 2016 - 6:08pm — Margaret Fergus...
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
DR ELSIE INGLIS
1864- 1917
HERITAGE TRAIL
Location:
on the wall up at 1st floor window level
219 High Street, Royal Mile
Edinburgh, RH1 1PE
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Images:
Additional information:
"In 1904 she set up a small maternity hospital for Edinburgh's poor in the city's High Street, staffed entirely by women. This later became the Elsie Maude Inglis Memorial Hospital." (Undiscovered Scotland www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/i/elsieinglis....)
The street numbering is likely to have changed.
Women of Achievement Plaque to Elsie Inglis
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 31 July 2012 - 8:46pm
Revised: 30 August 2016 - 6:09pm — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Women of Achievement
ELSIE INGLIS
Location:
on the wall near the level of the 1st floor windows
219 High Street, Royal Mile
Edinburgh, EH1 1PE
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Images:
Additional information:
Part of the Edinburgh Women's Achievement Trail
Plaque marking Lady Stair's Close and House
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 26 July 2012 - 7:00pm
Revised: 13 June 2013 - 7:33am — Margaret Fergus...
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
LADY STAIR CLOSE
MANSION OF LADY STAIR
- RESTORED BY
5TH EARL OF RESEBERY -
ONLY RELIC OF CLOSE WHERE
IN TAVERN OF 1717
SIR RICHARD STEELE GAVE
SUPPER TO COMPANY OF
ECCENTRIC BEGGARS
Erected by:
City of Edinburgh Council
Material:
metal
Location:
at the Lawnmarket entrance to Lady Stair's Close
477 Lawnmarket , Royal Mile
Edinburgh, EH1 2PA
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Plaque to Dame Louisa Augusta Wood
Submitted by admin on 24 July 2012 - 10:18am
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
IN MEMORY /
OF /
DAME LOUISA AUGUSTA WOOD /
[rest of inscription to follow]
Location:
Sir Gabriel Wood Mariners' Home
67 Newark Street
Greenock, IVC, PA16 7TQ
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Plaque to Helen R Harrison
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 23 July 2012 - 6:26pm
Revised: 2 October 2013 - 3:26pm — Margaret Fergus...
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
THE RESTORATION OF
GLADSTONES LAND
WAS INITIATED BY
HELEN R HARRISON
IN MEMORY OF
HER FATHER JOHN
HARRISON A LOVER
OF OLD EDINBURGH
Material:
stone
Location:
on the wall at Gladstone's Land
Lawnmarket, Royal Mile
Edinburgh, EH1 2NT
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Images:
Greengate House, mosaic plaque above door
Submitted by laura.dolan on 4 July 2012 - 10:40am
Revised: 19 November 2014 - 2:31pm — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
E-A-Taylor
and
Jessie-M-King
Lived & worked
in this house
Material:
Mosaic Tile
Location:
Greengate House
46 High Street
Kirkcudbright , DG6 4JX
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Plaque on wall of Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Sciennes in Edinburgh
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 28 June 2012 - 7:28pm
Revised: 7 July 2012 - 4:23pm — Margaret Fergus...
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
THE LADY CAROLINE CHARTERIS WING ERECTED IN LOVING MEMORY OF A BEAUTIFUL AND BENEFICENT LIFE BY HER SISTER LADY JANE DUNDAS 1892-1895
Erected by:
Lady Jane Dundas
Date:
1895
Material:
stone and metal
Location:
On wall of Charteris Wing, facing Sciennes Road, of Royal Hospital for Sick Children
9 Sciennes Road
Edinburgh, EH9 1LF
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