Blue Plaques
1. First Aerial Bomb Dropped on the UK
This was the first of the original 10 Dover Society Millennium Plaques and was unveiled in Mid-February 2000. It is situated on the wall of 1 Taswell Close at the junction with Taswell Street. Peter...
2. Last Enemy Shell to Land in Kent Sept 1944
This second of the original 10 Dover Society Millennium Plaques and was unveiled in Mid-February 2000 just three days after the first and is situated on the wall of the Dover District Council...
3. Instruments of Punishment
The third of the original 10 Dover Society Millennium Plaques and was unveiled on Monday 17th April 2000 [the first of two that day]. It is sited on the side...
4. Bronze Age Boat
The fourth of the original 10 Dover Society Millennium Plaques and was unveiled on Monday 17th April 2000 [the second of two that day]. It is situated above the entrance to the underpass as you...
5. Zeebrugge Raid
The fifth of the original 10 Dover Society Millennium Plaques was unveiled in October 2000 [the first of two that day]. It is situated on the wall of the Old Market Hall, now the Dover Museum in the...
6. William Burgess
This plaque, the sixth in the Millennium series, can be found, above eye level, at the corner of Stembrook and Castle Street and was unveiled in October 2000 [the second that day] It recognises,...
7. Charles Dickens
The Plaque at Camden Crescent This plaque, the seventh in the millennium series, can be found, on the wall, along Camden Crescent at number 17 and was unveiled in December 2000 [one of three...
8. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, PC (1690-1764)
This plaque was installed in December 2000 and is located near the centre of Snargate Street. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, PC. Also known as Baron Hardwicke of Hardwicke and Viscount...
9. The Lord Warden Hotel
This plaque was installed in December 2000 The LORD WARDEN HOTEL was opened in1853 on part of the site purchased ten years previously by the South-Eastern Railway Company. The company bought the...
10. The Dover Gallows
The 10th of the Millennium plaques is at the Eagle Hotel on the corner of Tower Hamlets Road and London Road and was unveiled in September 2002. The gallows were sited close to the corner...
11. Thomas Pattenden
Thomas Pattenden was born in Dover in 1748 and died there in 1819 Derek Leach with Kathleen and Bob Hollinsbee The following article appeared in the Dover Society Newsletter No. 69 pages...
12. Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
The plaque to Thomas Tallis was unveiled by Dover College headmaster Gerry Holden on 7th March 2014. The Society thanks builder John Hill who fixed it without charge. Mr Holden gave a brief history...
13. River Tram Crash
This plaque was unveiled on 29th January 2015 The plaque is situated on the wall of the northern parapet of the of the River Dour bridge at the bottom of the second bend of the incline on...
14. Dr Reginald Koettlitz ‘RK’ 1860-1916
At 10am on Monday 5th December 2016 a ceremony took place to mark the installation of the latest Dover Society blue plaque. This was in recognition of Dr Reginald Koettlitz, a day boy at Dover...
15. Cuthbert John Ottaway 1850-1878
On Friday 16th March at Camden Crescent a plaque to commemorate a Dover man Cuthbert John Ottaway, was unveiled by Richard McCarthy a practising football referee, something of which Richard was...
16. Gertrude Mary Beatrice Toland
Plaque unveiled 13th April 2018 The plaque is situated at Clyde House Five Ways, Dover Born in Edinburgh on 27 November 1901, as Gertrude Morgan she moved to Dover in 1932 Gertrud Toland died on...
17. Castle Hill House
Castle Hill House At 4pm on Sunday 11th September 2022 at Castle Hill House a short ceremony took place to unveil a our latest blue plaque to date, in recognition of the role, over the years, that...
18. Lorna Bomford
Latest Dover Society Plaque UnveiledMilestone House, Temple Ewell, DoverReported by Alan Lee Lorna Bomford 1933 At 2pm on Monday 26th June 2023 a small group of people gathered, including three...