#143 Memorials (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

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.
0:23.7	For all your options, you can go to patreon.com forward slash oh what a time.
0:28.7	Welcome back. This is part two of Oh What a Time. This week we're discussing memorials and celebrations.
0:33.8	Let's get on with the show.
0:46.9	Music celebrations. Let's get on with the show. So today, I'm going to be talking to you about those little blue plaques,
0:53.9	those little metal plaques that you see on houses
0:56.0	every so often that say things like Mary Grimbles, horticulturalist lived here, whatever it was
1:01.0	to be 1863, you know those ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it'll be someone huge, and then it'll
1:07.4	be someone you've never heard of. But I find them endlessly fascinating.
1:11.3	Yes, me too.
1:11.9	And I love the idea of one day living in a house with one of those on.
1:16.2	I thought exactly the same thing last night because I drove past one.
1:20.8	I was dropping my daughter off at Guides.
1:23.8	And it's just a normal, very normal sort of residential street. The house looks quite similar to mine, but it's got to be a pluck on it. And I think it must add value to the house. I'm sure it does. Absolutely, yeah. What's the one near you then? Did you take the time to stop and read it? Yeah, I think she is someone who is involved in codebricking in World War II.
1:45.0	That's pretty cool.
1:45.9	Yeah, pretty cool.
1:46.7	I think the real money boost, though, is probably an author who's written an incredibly important book somewhere.
1:53.7	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:53.9	I think that's the one you want.
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