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This is the ultimate novelty gift. Your own personal blue plaque, totally customisable to claim you are/were amazing and contributed to society in some way, to adorn the front of your house and fascinate tourists.
While the government’s cut in English Heritage’s funding means we may see the official blue plaques disappear from our historic streets, you can now generate your own to commemorate that key event in your life event. You may wish to mark the hallowed bit of ground where you first found a discarded pornographic magazine, or the bus shelter of historic importance where you consumed your first entire can of Special Brew.
The bespoke plaques come in metal for £110 or durable plastic for a stonking £300, and can be completely customised online to suit the way you’d like to be remembered. [Firebox]
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Um – I don’t think the funding cut will mean that existing plaques will ‘disappear’ from our streets – only that new ones won’t be added.
To be honest I think that some of the existing ones, celebrating more modern people, fall prey to souvenir hunters, so probably need replacing.
How is it that the metal plaques are so much cheaper than the plastic ones?
Metal ones are flat, so the words are just printed on, the plastic ones are 3D and have to be embossed. see image at source.
Why can’t I have a metal embossed one?
Because they don’t make it.
They should.
….and yet National Heritage claim that each plaque costs £965 to install.
Bloody right that the govt have cut funding, if they are milking it that much. Given they would be made for them and not being purchased at retail, it’s considerably less than the £300. So unless they’re employing George Clooney to pop over and install it, there is no way it can cost over £700 to drill two holes and screw in 2 screws.
The real English Heritage plaques are made of cast clay – This article is talking only about unapproved replicas.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/blue-plaques/about/design/
Ah, makes sense. But then surely there is scope for re-evaluation. They would rather use acrylic to make them than not at all – no? I’d say it even has more benefits over clay. Other than ‘rustic’ looks.