Below is a list of all current Civic Society plaques in alphabetic order. On many you can click on the subjects name to read more about them. If you wish to see a list of planned plaques, click here
Dr John Ash
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Founder of the General Hospital |
House of Fraser, Temple Row |
Thomas Attwood -
Political Reformer |
Crescent Tower, Brindley Walk |
W H Auden -
Poet |
Harborne Swimming Baths, Lordswood Rd. Harborne |
The Austin Village
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Built by Sir Herbert Austin to house his workers in the 1914
/ 1918 War |
Central Avenue, The Austin Village, Northfield, Birmingham
B31 |
Sir Granville Bantock
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Composer |
Metchley Abbey, Metchley Rd, Harborne |
John Baskerville
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Printer and publisher |
Baskerville House, Centenary Square, Broad Street |
Edward White Benson -
Archbishop of Canterbury |
104 / 106 Lombard Street, Balsall Heath |
Birmingham City Council -
For the building of the International Convention Centre, Symphony
Hall, The National Indoor Arena and Centenary Square |
Lord Mayor's Parlour, The Council House, Victoria Square. |
Blue Coat School |
Halifax Building Society, Colmore Row. |
Dr George Boddington -
Pioneer Doctor of Medicine |
Flats on the corner of Gravelly Hill and Hillaries Rd.,
Erdington |
Matthew Boulton -
Engineer, inventor and industrial pioneer |
1) corner of Steelhouse Lane and Priory Queensway
2) Soho House, Soho Avenue, Handsworth |
Reverend Thomas Bray -
Bibliophile |
Rectory Farm, Ragley Drive, Church Rd., Sheldon. |
Sir Edward Burne-Jones -
Artist |
11 / 12 Bennetts Hill, City Centre. |
Bournville Building -
Estate created by George Cadbury, Industrialist and Philanthrophist |
Bournville Village Green,(above the entrance to the "round
house" Estate Building |
Cannon Hill Park -
Commemorating Louisa Anne Ryland |
The Lodge at Cannon Hill Park, Edgbaston Road entrance |
Sir Austen Chamberlain -
Statesman |
Giles House, 83, Harborne Road, Edgbaston. |
Joseph Chamberlain -
Statesman |
Highbury Hall, Yew Tree Lane, Moseley. |
Neville Chamberlain -
Prime Minister |
Edgbaston High School, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston. |
Children's Hospital -
1862 to 1962 |
On the site of the original Children's Hospital, Ladywood
Road (near Five Ways on the Hagley Road) |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
Author |
On the wall of a building in Aston Road North (until recently,
the premises of T Startin Ltd. Vauxhall Dealers) |
David Cox -
Artist and landscape painter |
116, Greenfield Road, Harborne. |
William Sands Cox -
Founder of the Birmingham Medical School |
On House of Fraser, Temple Row, City Centre. |
Dr R W Dale -
Orator and non-conformist Minister |
Carrs Lane Church, Carrs Lane, City Centre. |
Royal School for Deaf Children |
Church Road, Edgbaston |
Dental Hospital
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|
Reception Area, The Dental Hospital, St Chad's Queensway,
Birmingham 4 |
Oscar Deutsch -
Founder of the Odeon Cinema Chain |
Gala Bingo Club, Birchfield Road, Perry Barr (the first
Odeon Cinema) |
Guild Hall of the Holy Cross and King Edward VI
High School |
The AA (Automobile Association) Offices, New Street, City
Centre |
Sid Field -
Comedian |
152, Osborn Road, Sparkbrook |
John Freeth -
The Poet of Bell Street |
Bell Street subway, near New Street Station and the Bull
Ring |
J Samson Gamgee -
Surgeon and founder of Birmingham Saturday Fund |
Repertory Theatre, Centenary Square, Broad Street |
Thomas Hall BD -
Schoolmaster, preacher and bibliophile |
On the front of the Old Grammar School, in the Churchyard
on Kings Norton Green |
The Birmingham General Hospital |
On the original site of the hospital which is now the Offices
of CENTRO, Summer Lane, Birmingham |
Sir Rowland Hill -
Postal reformer |
146, Hagley Road and also in Lionel Street and Severn Street |
George Holyoake -
Social Reformer |
High Street, City Centre |
Major Dr. J. Hall-Edwards -
Pioneer radiologist |
On the corner of what is now the new Children's Hospital,
Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham |
Tony Hancock -
Comedian |
Southam Road, Hall Green |
Joseph Hansom -
Architect |
Birmingham Town Hall, Victoria Square |
William Hutton -
The first Historian of Birmingham |
High Street, facing New Street in the City Centrre |
Washington Irving -
American Essayist |
Above the doorway of the Forward Trust Building, Calthorpe
Road, Edgbaston , Birmingham |
Sir Barry Jackson
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Founder and Patron of Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
There is a plaque high on the wall of the Old Repertory
Theatre in Station Street and a bronze bust and plaque inside
the new Repertory Theatre in Centenary Square |
Sir John Jaffray -
Co-founder of the Birmingham Post Newspaper |
249 Bristol Road (what used to be Edgbaston College) |
Alderman W Byng Kenrick -
Civic Leader and Educationalist |
Grove Park, Grove Lane, Harborne |
Albert W Ketelbey -
Composer and Musician |
On the Birmingham and Midland Institute, Margaret Street,
City Centre |
Christian Kunzle -
Confectioner and philanthropist |
On the front of the Abbey National Bank, Broad Street,
Five Ways |
Lady Well -
An early water supply for the City of Birmingham |
Ladywell Walk, Digbeth |
Frederick and George Lanchester -
The Lanchester brothers designed and built the first motor
car in England |
On the front wall of a company called MBC Metal Powders,
Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook. (There are also commemorative
plaques on 30 Dyott Road and 128 Oxford Road, Moseley) |
Lawn Tennis and Major
T. H. Gem -
The game was originated and played by Major Gem, a solicitor
and sportsman |
Above the doorway at 8, Ampton Road, Edgbaston |
Lloyds Bank -
The original branch of this bank started by Mr Samuel Lloyd
and Mr Taylor in 1765 |
Between Albert St. and Carrs Lane, Dale End, Birmingham |
Dame Hilda Lloyd -
Senior Surgeon, President of the Royal College of Obstetrics
and Gynaecology |
Birmingham Women's Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre,
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 |
Sir Oliver Lodge -
Scientist |
On the front of the Student Hostels, Westbourne Road, Edgbaston |
Joseph Lucas -
Founder of the Lucas Electrical Industries |
On the front of Three Star House, Carver Street, Ladywood,
Birmingham |
Sir Josiah Mason
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Penmaker and Educationalist |
Forum Complex, Central Library, Chamberlain Square, City
Centre (this plaque is temporarily in storage as a result
of building work - to be re-erected shortly) |
Military Airfield -
The site of the airfield used to test-fly many thousands of
locally made Spitfires in World War Two |
In the grounds of St Cuthbert's Church, Reed Square, Castle
Vale |
John Henry, Cardinal
Newman -
Founder of the English Oratory |
Alongside the main gateway to the Oratory Church, Hagley
Road, Edgbaston |
Norton Motor Cycle Company |
Bracebridge Street, Aston, Birmingham |
Alexander Parkes -
Inventor of first plastic |
Old Elkington Works, Newhall Street |
Joseph Priestly -
Scholar, Scientist, Theologian and discoverer of oxygen |
On the side of the Church of St Michael and St Joseph,
New Meeting House Lane, Birmingham |
Queen's Hospital (Accident Hospital) |
Bath Row, Birmingham |
Rotary Club -
The first Rotary Club in the Midlands |
On the front of the Midland Hotel, New Street, City Centre |
Sarehole Mill -
The plaque commemorates the mill and its association with
Matthew Boulton and J R R Tolkien |
Sarehole Mill, Cole Bank Road, Hall Green |
William Slim -
Field Marshall, Viscount Slim of Burma |
144, Poplar Avenue, Harborne |
Joseph Southall -
Artist and Craftsman |
Alongside the door of 13, Charlotte Road, Edgbaston |
Spitfire -
Commemorates the many fighter aircraft which were built on
this site between 1939 and 1946 |
Jaguar Car Company, Castle Bromwich |
Sir John Benjamin Stone MP -
Pioneer photographer |
Taylor Memorial Home, Grange Road, Erdington |
Lawson Tait -
Pioneer Surgeon and Gynaecologist |
Norton Tower, Civic Close |
Edward Taylor and William Taylor -
Father and son, Art teacher and Potter |
26, Highfield Road, Edgbaston |
Birmingham Municipal Technical School |
There are two plaques, one in Swallow Street and one at
Aston University |
Theatre Royal |
On the first floor of the Charters Building, formerly the
Woolworth building, New Street, City Centre |
Will Thorne -
Founder of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers |
Current location uncertain. Was on the wall of Lucas Industries,
Great King Street, Hockley - recently demolished |
Professor J R R Tolkien -
Author |
There are plaques to Tolkien at 1, Duchess Place, Ladywood,
at the Plough and Harrow Hotel, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, and
in Highfield Road, Edgbaston |
The Warwickshire County Cricket Club |
Above the entrance to the Members Stand, at the County
Cricket Ground, Edgbaston |
James Watt -
Engineer, Inventor and Industrial Engineer |
17, Regent Place, the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. |
Dr. William Withering
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Physician and botanist |
Edgbaston Golf Club, Church Road, Edgbaston |
Francis Brett Young -
Novelist, Poet and Physician |
105, Harborne Road, Edgbaston |
| Sir Michael Balcon |
George Dixon School, Edgbaston |
| Francis Aston |
Tennal Road, Harborne |