Blue Plaques

Vote!

Click here for the blue plaque 2008 voting list and cast your vote!

The people's plaques

It's true that other councils run similar schemes, and of course there are the famous English Heritage blue plaques, but we believe Southwark is the only borough which allows residents, tourists, history buffs, anyone in fact, to decide who gets the recognition. They truly are the people's plaques!

Down the centuries Southwark has been home to some of Britain's most famous and influential people.

To celebrate them, Southwark Council's blue plaques scheme,  born in 2002, is giving residents and visitors the chance to decide which local icons, past and present, they want to see remembered with a plaque.

Over 10,000 people cast a vote for their favourite Southwark icon in the first year of the scheme and in the summer of 2003, 20 plaques went up across the borough to luminaries including Michael Caine, Sam Wanamaker the founder of Shakespeare's Globe, and Charles Dickens.

The scheme has been run every year since and now is your chance to get involved.

Contact us

Blue plaques
Tel: 020 7525 2000
vote4icons@southwark.gov.uk