Temporary Plaques Page

The commemorative plaques are listed below

Click on the Name of the plaque holder and the descriptive PDF file will be displayed in a new window
Click on the street name and a Google map view of the approximate location will be displayed in a new window

An interactive Google Map of all the plaque locations can be viewed by clicking here

Margaret Bondfield - First Female Cabinet Minister - The Ridgewaye

Henry Crundwell - First Chairman of Southborough Urban District Council - 27 Holden Road

Lord Dowding - Commander in Chief Fighter Command - Darnley Drive

Captain Arthur Duckworth - Artist & Composer - Vauxhall Lane

Arthur Fagg - Kent and England Cricketer and Test Match Umpire - London Road

Christopher Fry - Author and Dramatist - St. Andrews Park Road

Violet Godfrey - Opera Singer - The Ridgewaye

Sir Richard Hayward - Senior Trades Unionist and Civil Servant - Birchwood Avenue

Kenneth Hutchings - Kent and England Cricketer - London Road

Sir John Killick - Ambassador to Moscow and NATO - Norstead Gardens

Doris Leslie - Author - Argyle Road

Guy Maunsell - Civil Engineer and Designer of the Thames Forts - The Orchard, London Road

Sergeant Albert Mitchell - Charger with the Light Brigade - Taylor Street

Alex “Jock” Ross - Medical Orderly to Douglas Bader - Weare Road

Ernest Arthur Rowe - Victorian Artist - Prospect Road

Amelia Scott - Suffragist and Feminist - 36 London Road

Katharine Tynan - Poet - Victoria Road

Ralph Usherwood - Artist and Art Editor at the Radio Times. Lived on Pennington Road from 1949 until 2000. Read more about his life and see photographs of him and his artwork of Southborough scenes on the link below. - Pennington Road

Roger Webster - Activist - Pennington Road

Frank Woolley - Kent and England Cricketer - Yew Tree Road