Everything you need to know about getting a Blue Plaque

To have a chance of being awarded one of these commemorative plaques you should;

• Be dead for 20 years, or be born at least 100 years before today's date - whichever comes earlier.
• Be regarded as quite brilliant by other members of your profession.
• Make some sort of outstanding contribution the welfare or happiness of your fellow human being.
• Live at the house in question either for a significant period of time, or during an important period of your life.
• Get yourself recognised by the average well-informed person on the street, or do something that will deserve national recognition.
• Get yourself an international reputation or quite an excellent standing, if you're foreign.
  
  

  Easy eh? Here are some of addresses where you'll find real plaques dedicated to those who have actually earned one;

  Some Blue Plaquers

• Aldous Huxley - 16 Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead NW3
• George Orwell - 50 Lawford Road, Kentish Town, NW5
• Willie Rushton - Mornington Crescent Tube Station (a reference to the Radio 4 game "I'm sorry I haven't a clue").
• Kenneth Williams - Marlborough House, Osnaburgh St, NW1
• Mahatma Gandhi - Kingsley Hall, Powis Road, Tower Hamlets and 20 Baron's Court Road, Fulham
• Boris Karloff - 36 Forest Hill Road, East Dulwich, SE23
• Herman Melville - 25 Craven Street, Westminster, WC2
• Amadeus Mozart - 180 Ebury Street, Westminster, SW1
• Samuel Pepys - 12 Buckingham Street, Westminster, WC1
• H G Wells - 13 Hanover Terrace, Westminster, NW1
• Oscar Wilde - 34 Tite Street, Kensington, SW3