Search & Discover Blue Plaques in London
Start hunting down London's hidden heritage and history one blue plaque at a time with our guide to London's blue plaques.
Whether you are retracing the footsteps of your heroes or enjoying a trip to London and wish to incorporate some history in to your London visit our Blue Plaque Guide can expand your view of London.
Sir Leonard Woolley Archaeologist and excavator of Ur Born in a house on this site 1880.
10a Southwold Road, London, E5 9RD

Leopold Anthony Stokowski - musician - 1882-1977 attended this school
64 Marylebone High Street, London, W1U 5BA

Lord Haden-Guest 1877-1960 physician lived here
Leslie Haden-Guest Blue Plaque
40 Tite Street, London, SW3 4JA

Lord Hore-Belisha 1893-1957 statesman lived here
Leslie Hore-Belisha Blue Plaque
82 Sinclair Road, London, SW1 1PB


Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson 1900-1969 singer and pianist lived here 1929-1967
14A Steele's Road, London, NW3 4SE



Lilian Baylis 1874-1937 manager of the Old Vic and Sadlers Wells Theatres lived and died here
25 Stockwell Park Road, London, SW9 0AP

Lilian Lindsay 1871-1960 the first woman dentist to qualify in Britain lived here
5 Hungerford Road, London, N7 9LA



Lionel Tertis 1876-1975 viola soloist lived in a flat here 1961-1975
42 Marryat Road, London, SW19 5BD

Site of Lloyds Coffee House 1691-1785
Lloyds Coffee House Blue Plaque
39 Lombard Street, London, EC3V 9BS

Lokamanya Tilak 1856-1920 Indian patriot and philosopher lived here 1918-1919
12 Howley Place, London, W2 1XA

London Bridge Rebuilt 1967-1973 by the Corporation of London from Bridge House Estates funds
2 London Bridge, London, SE1 9DD

London Headquarters of the African National Congress 1978–1994
London Headquarters Of The African National Congress Green Plaque
28 Penton Street, London, N1 9PW




Dame Lucie Rie 1902-1995 potter lived and worked here from 1939 until her death
22 Albion Mews, London, W2 2BA

Lucien Pissarro 1863-1944 painter, printer, wood engraver lived here
6 Stamford Brook Road, London, W6 0XH




Lytton Strachey Critic & Biographer 1880-1932 Love Lived Here
Lytton Strachey Multicoloured Plaque
51 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PQ

Madge Gill, née Maud Eades artist (1882-1961) lived here between 1882-1890
52 High Street, London, E17 7LD
15 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6PH



Sir Malcolm Sargent 1895-1967 conductor lived and died in a flat in this building
11A Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2BL

Sir Mansfield Cumming 1859-1923 First Chief of the Secret Service lived and worked here 1911-1922
2 Whitehall Court, London, SW1A 2EJ



Marc Isambard Brunel And Brunel's Engine House Black Plaque
Brunel Engine House, Railway Avenue, London, SE16 4LF

Marc Isambard Brunel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, And Thames Tunnel Brushed Metal Plaque
Brandrams Wharf, 127-131 Rotherhithe Street, London, SE16 4NF



Dame Margaret Rutherford (1892-1972), actress lived here 1895-1920
Margaret Rutherford Blue Plaque
18 Berkeley Place, London, SW19 4NN


Dr. Margery Blackie 1898-1981 homoeopathic physician lived and worked here 1929-1980
16 Thurloe Street, London, SW7 2ST

Dame Margot Fonteyn 1919-1991 Prima Ballerina Assoluta lived here in Flat 9
120 Long Acre, London, WC2E 9PA

Maria Dickin 1870-1951 Promoter of animal welfare and founder of PDSA was born here
180 Well Street, London, E9 6QU

Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée) 1839-1908 novelist lived here
15 Ravenscourt Square, London, W6 0TW

Marie Kendall (1873-1964) Music Hall Artiste lived here
Okeover Manor, Clapham Common North Side, London, SW4 0RH



Dame Marie Rambert 1888-1982 founder of Ballet Rambert lived here
13 Campden Hill Gardens, London, W8 7AX

Marie Stopes 1880-1958 Social reformer pioneer of the family planning movement lived here 1909-1916
10 Well Walk, London, NW3 1LD

Marie Stopes 1880-1958 Promoter of sex education and birth control lived here 1880-1892
1 Milestone Road, London, SE19 2LL

Marie Stopes 1880-1958 opened here the Mothers' Clinic. First of its kind in Britain 1921-1925
61 Marlborough Road, London, N19 4PF



Madame Marie Tussaud 1761-1850 artist in Wax lived here 1838-1839
59 Wellington Road, London, NW8 9SQ
One Well Mount Studios. Mark Gertler 1891-1939 artist lived here
Doctors Surgery, 31 Grove Place, London, NW3 1JS

Mark Lemon co-founder and first editor of "Punch" lived in this house 1817 to 1823
46 Church End, London, NW4 4JT