Plaque
Records tagged with Type of Memorial: Plaque
Memorial to Jeanie Donnan
Submitted by Elsie.Miller on 27 September 2012 - 4:07pm
Revised: 1 October 2012 - 1:59pm — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
This plaque is a tribute/ to the memory of/ Jeanie Donnan,/ the Galloway poetess,/ who lived here.
Born at Gatehouse of Flee/ 19th November 1866/ she died here 14th May 1942
Erected by:
public subscription which was sponsored by ... The Galloway Association of Glasgow and The Galloway Gazette
Designed by:
?
Date:
1942
Material:
Stone?
Location:
Wall of house
76 George Street
Whithorn, DG8 8QA
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Additional information:
Picture available in Flikr (Jeanie Donnan)
Plaque to Florence Horsbrugh
Submitted by Alison McCall on 25 September 2012 - 8:08am
Revised: 4 November 2012 - 8:16pm — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Florence Horsbrugh
MP & social campaigner
1889-1969
Erected by:
Dundee Women's Trail
Designed by:
Su Nicoll
Date:
2008
Material:
Bronze with blue enamel
Location:
Albert Square
23-27 Albert Square
Dundee , DD1 1DJ
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Images:
Additional information:
Number 16 on the Dundee Women's Trail.
Plaque to Lila Clunas
Submitted by Alison McCall on 17 September 2012 - 1:25pm
Revised: 4 November 2012 - 7:58pm — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
LILA CLUNAS
SUFFRAGETTE AND TOWN COUNCILLOR
1876-1968
Erected by:
Dundee Women's Trail
Designed by:
Su Nicoll
Date:
2008
Material:
Bronze with blue enamel
Location:
Former Brown Street School (now a bar).
13 Brown Street
Dundee, DD1 5EF
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Images:
Additional information:
This is plaque no. 9 on the Dundee Women's Trail.
Mortification Board commemorating Katherine Forbes, Lady Rothiemay
Submitted by Alison McCall on 14 September 2012 - 1:46pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
1642 Katheren Forbes Lady Rothiemay mortified an Thousand Pounds Scots money for maintaining a Mistress of a School at Aberdeen for teaching young women to read and sew.
Erected by:
Aberdeen Town Council c1642
Date:
1642
Material:
Wood
Location:
The entrance hall of Aberdeen Town House (Union Street entrance)
Broad Street
Aberdeen , AB10 1AR
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Images:
Mortification Board commemorating Barbara Forbes
Submitted by Alison McCall on 14 September 2012 - 9:05am
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
1647 Barbara Forbes, widow and relict of Mr William Johnston, professor of Mathematicks in the Marischal College of Aberdeen did mortify her said husband's haill mathematical books and instruments to the Bibliotheck.
Erected by:
Aberdeen Town Council c1647
Date:
1647
Material:
Wood
Location:
Entrance hall of Aberdeen Town House (Union Street entrance)
Broad Street
Aberdeen , AB10 1AR
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Images:
Mortification Board commemorating Marion Douglas
Submitted by Alison McCall on 14 September 2012 - 8:06am
Revised: 14 September 2012 - 8:10am — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
1633 Marion Dowglas, Lady of Drum, widow and relict of the forsaid Alexander Irvine of Drum did mortifie three thousand merks Scots for maintenance of poore widowes and aged virgens of the town of Aberdeen. Item she left in legacy three hundred merks for building or buying an house for them.
Erected by:
The Council of Aberdeen c 1633
Date:
1633
Material:
Wood
Location:
The front entrance hall of Aberdeen Town House (Union Street entrance)
Broad Street
Aberdeen , AB10 1AR
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Images:
Plaque to Sarah Weideman
Submitted by Alison McCall on 12 September 2012 - 1:27pm
Revised: 13 June 2014 - 8:30am — Alison McCall
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Site of
birthplace
in 1772 of
Sarah Weideman
Mother of
Robert Browning
Location:
Seagate
Seagate
Dundee
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Images:
Additional information:
There is a photograph and further details at
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=546&2152
Plaque to Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Mary Shelley)
Submitted by Alison McCall on 12 September 2012 - 1:18pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
On this site stood
the cottage
(mentioned in Frankenstein)
visited by
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
1812-1814
Location:
South Baffin Street
South Baffin Street , Broughty Ferry Road
Dundee, DD4
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Additional information:
There is a photograph of the memorial at
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Content/Help/index.aspx?r=546&2151
Brass plaque commemorating "Mrs Andrew Carnegie."
Submitted by Alison McCall on 11 September 2012 - 7:50pm
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
The lighting in this cathedral
was given in memory of
MRS ANDREW CARNEGIE
of Skibo
by her daughter and her family
October 1949
Erected by:
Margaret Carnegie
Date:
October 1949
Material:
Brass
Location:
Dornoch Cathedral
St Gilbert Street
Dornoch , IV25 3HN
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Images:
War memorial in Dornoch Cathedral
Submitted by Alison McCall on 10 September 2012 - 10:58pm
Revised: 11 September 2012 - 2:22pm — admin
Dedicated to:
Inscription:
Served with the Forces
Material:
Brass
Location:
The porch of Dornoch Cathedral
St Gilbert Street
Dornoch , IV25 3HN
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Images:
