Help Choose the Next Blue Plaque for Cambridge

So far, 43 blue plaques have been installed since 2001, including for Thomas the Tank Engine author Rev. W Audry, the suffragette campaigner Millicent Fawcett, the mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing and the wartime food nutritionist Elsie Widdowson. The most recent plaque was installed in the village of Foxton in May for paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey.  

The plaques are put on buildings that are relevant to the person or event and are visible to the public.  

Penny Heath is the Chair of the charity’s Blue Plaque Committee, a group of volunteers that decides whether a nomination should be taken forward, she is keen to receive suggestions for new plaques, “as we look around our city and villages, we can understand our past from historic buildings and archaeology but the people who made our history are no longer visible and are often forgotten to time. Blue plaques help make some of those people and their achievements visible again, so that they can be known by current and future generations. People are often unaware that someone remarkable lived in their neighbourhood and it’s wonderful to be able to share their local history with them.”  

Nominations can be made by email to: enquiries@cambridgeppf.org  with details of the person/event, why they deserve a plaque and the building it would be put on. Nominees must have died at least 10 years ago. Nominations are especially welcome where supporters are able to help raise funds for the plaque.  

A full list of existing plaques and more details about nominating can be found at 
www.cambridgeppf.org/blue-plaques