#143 Memorials (Part 1)
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re taking a look at interesting memorials. We’ve got a brief history of statues in Britain, the history of the blue plaque and we’ve got a little on the history of naming things.
Now sadly, there is no permanent memorial to West Ham winning the UEFA Conference League (at time of writing), but if you’ve got any interesting memorials you’d like to send our way or have any ideas for some, you can send them in here: hello@ohwhatatime.com
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free, |
| 0:06.4 | plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access |
| 0:11.9 | to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water |
| 0:16.9 | Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in history you might have popped up. For all your options, you can go to patreon.com |
| 0:26.3 | forward slash oh, what a time. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello and welcome to Oh, what a time, and welcome to our episode on memorials. |
| 0:47.7 | And at time of recording, there is no memorial to West Hamer. |
| 0:49.5 | We're in the UEFA Conference League in 2023. |
| 0:54.0 | Hopefully by the time you're listening to this, a statue of David Moyes will be in East London. |
| 0:55.8 | But for now, we must continue. |
| 0:57.8 | Time marches on, Chris. |
| 1:00.4 | I thought it was last year, but it's not. |
| 1:01.2 | 2023. |
| 1:03.4 | I mean, things were very different then. |
| 1:05.8 | It's a different place. |
| 1:08.2 | This is a history podcast. |
| 1:12.6 | And we started our last episode last week talking about how people travelled before the internet. Here's a small story. In approximately 1999, my dad decided to save |
| 1:18.7 | money by not flying to the Algarve, but rather driving our Vauxhall Frontera down to the south |
| 1:25.8 | coast, getting a ferry to Santander, and then |
| 1:28.7 | driving the length of Spain and Portugal to get to the Algarve. Wow. Wow. And this was |
| 1:33.4 | in a time where if you couldn't speak Spanish and you went into rural Spain, there wasn't |
| 1:39.9 | a services. You couldn't go find a subway. In the late 90s, it was just like some guy's house. |
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