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I was slightly surprised this morning to learn that the London Borough of Brent only has one of those Blue Plaques installed within its boundaries. It’s on the wall of 11 Forty Lane in Wembley Park, just before you hit Blackbird Cross and enter the badlands of Neasden. Apparently the bloke who cavorted around as Old Mother Riley lived there. Now god bless him, but surely we have others as/more deserving of this memorial? Farks name, Keith Moon lived up by me for starters.
Sir William Perkins School is now on the site of the old Glaxo Sports Ground in Oldfield Lane. The school blazer color is mauve, after the dye invented by Sir William Perkin.
And when the Oldfield boozer was bulldozed they named the replacement flats William Perkin Court.
The only criteria is they have to be dead for 20 years, so feel free to propose him if you feel strongly
"However, plaques are as much about the buildings in which people lived and worked as about the subjects being commemorated — the intrinsic aim of English Heritage blue plaques is to celebrate the relationship between people and place. For this reason, we only erect a plaque if there is a surviving building closely associated with the person in question."
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