Plaque
Records tagged with Type of Memorial: Plaque
Plaque to Bessie Watson
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 29 May 2020 - 7:09pm
Revised: 1 July 2020 - 1:47pm — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
CELEBRATING THE ACHIEVEMENTS
OF
Bessie Watson
Scotland's Youngest Suffragette
Born and lived at 11 Vennel
Plaque produced by
6VT Edinburgh City Youth Cafe
in association with the
Scottish Government to mark the
Centenary of Women's Suffrage
Unveiled
by
The Rt. Hon. Nicola Sturgeon MSP,
First Minister of Scotland.
"Deeds not Words"
"Best for Bessie"
Erected by:
6VT Edinburgh City Youth Cafe and the Scottish Government
Date:
1st August 2019
Location:
High up the wall, on the right when going up the Vennel
Vennel
Edinburgh, MLN, EH1 2HU
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Plaque to Christian Watt
Submitted by Alison McCall on 5 April 2020 - 7:19pm
Revised: 7 September 2020 - 10:38am — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Erected by:
Historic Environment Scotland
Date:
2018
Location:
72 Main Street
Broadsea
Fraserburgh
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Plaque to Louisa Innes Lumsden
Submitted by Alison McCall on 20 January 2020 - 4:05pm
Revised: 10 September 2020 - 4:01pm — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Louisa Lumsden DBE
1840-1935
Pioneer of Women’s Education
President Aberdeen Association for Women’s Suffrage
worked here
Erected by:
Aberdeen Women's Alliance and Aberdeen City Council
Date:
January 2020
Location:
214 Union Street
Aberdeen , AB10 1TL
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Plaque to the First Women Football Internationalists 1881
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 17 December 2019 - 9:04pm
Revised: 17 December 2019 - 10:47pm — Margaret Fergus...
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
This is the site of Hibernian Park, home of Hibernian Football Club 1880-1891
It was here that Scotland played England in the first ever women's international match with a 3-0 victory in 1881
Venue of the first Scotland men's international played outside Glasgow - a 5-1 win against Wales in 1888
Hibernian Supporters Association & Hibernian Historical Trust 2019
Erected by:
Hibernian Supporters Association & Hibernian Historical Trust
Date:
3rd December 2019
Material:
Metal
Location:
Entrance to Hibernian Football Supporters Club
11 Sunnyside
Edinburgh, MLN, EH7 5RA
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"This represents not only an important part of Hibernian Football Club's history but more importantly is recognition of the pioneers of the women's game and the part played by Leith as the original home of women's International football."
Crawford Corrigan, HSA Chairman.
Plaque to Susan Ferrier
Submitted by Alison McCall on 18 September 2019 - 11:14am
Revised: 10 September 2020 - 4:20pm — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
SUSAN FERRIER
1782-1854
Satirical Novelist lived here
Erected by:
Historic Environment Scotland
Location:
East Morningside House
Clinton Road
Edinburgh, EH9 2AW
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Plaque - Mary Symon
Submitted by Alison McCall on 14 September 2019 - 6:03pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
MARY SYMON
1863-1938
A woman of great knowledge and a poet of national significance
"But ah! It takes the dear Scots word
To grip your heart an' mine"
Erected by:
Historic Environment Scotland
Date:
2019
Location:
Clock Tower
Town Square
Dufftown, AB55 4AD
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Plaque to Caroline Phillips
Submitted by Alison McCall on 27 April 2019 - 7:29pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Caroline Phillips
Suffragette and Journalist
1874-1956
Honorary Secretary of the Women's Social and Political Union, Aberdeen branch worked here (1907-1909)
Erected by:
Aberdeen City Council / Aberdeen Women's Alliance
Date:
2019
Location:
41 1/2 Union Street
Aberdeen , AB11 6BA
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Plaque to Margaret Caroline Tait
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 23 February 2019 - 9:30pm
Revised: 2 April 2020 - 1:53pm — admin
Dedicated to:
Location:
Poets' Corner, St Magnus Cathedral
Broad Street
Kirkwall, KW15 1NX
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Temporary Plaque to Margaret Tait
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 23 February 2019 - 8:13pm
Revised: 2 April 2020 - 1:54pm — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Margaret Tait
1918-1999
FILMMAKER & POET
Edinburgh played a very important role in Margaret Tait's life and work. She was sent to Edinburgh for boarding in the 1940s, obtained a degree in medicing from the University of Edinburgh in 1941, and later established her film studio on Edinburgh's Rose Street. Several of her films feature Edinburgh as a subject. She also wrote at some length in her diaries about her experiences of living in the city. In many ways, Edinburgh served as Tait's muse
16 August, 1976: 'I used to like an 8 a.m. walk through Princes Street gardens - a mistry air of expectancy on a sunny morning, with a few visitors off the early trains looking dazed'.
Date:
2018
Material:
Temporary
Location:
on the side of a shelter in Princes Street Gardens, near the foot of the steps at the Floral Clock
Princes Street Gardens
Edinburgh, EH2 2AN
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There are also temporary plaques at Milne's Bar and Rose Street in Edinburgh, as well as a croft at West Aith on Orkney - with the hope that they will all be made permanent. There will be a memorial in St Magnus Cathedral, the first woman in Poet's Corner there.
Plaque to Florence Nightingale
Submitted by Margaret Fergus... on 14 February 2019 - 4:51pm
Revised: 2 April 2020 - 1:47pm — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Florence Nightingale
1820-1910
Date:
1931
Material:
bronze
Location:
On wall with other plaques of notable figures in the development of mental health care, below bronze bust of Philippe Pinel at MacKinnon House, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Morningside Place
Edinburgh, EH10 5HF
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