POLAR BLUE PLAQUES IN LONDON

L.C.C.
SIR
ERNEST
SHACKLETON
(1874-1922)
Antarctic Explorer
Lived here

12 Westwood Hill, SE26
Installed 1928
After a brief residency in East Croydon, the Shackleton family moved here not long after coming to England and stayed for many years. Ernest, on the other hand, was all over the place. He lived here, though, when a student at nearby Dulwich College, where his famous boat, the James Caird is on view to this very day.

L.C.C.
EDWARD
ADRIAN
WILSON
ANTARCTIC EXPLORER
and NATURALIST
(1872-1912)
Lived here

Battersea Vicarage
42 Vicarage Crescent, SW11
Installed 1935
Presumably Wilson lived here during his association with St Georges Hospital which then was located at Hyde Park Corner. He taught a Bible class at the nearby Caius College Mission.

LCC
ROBERT
FALCON
SCOTT
ANTARCTIC
EXPLORER
(1868-1912)
Lived here

56 Oakley Street, SW3
Installed 1935
[Scott lived here with his mother and sisters around the time of the Discovery expedition. Although they were yet to meet, his future wife, Kathleen Bruce, lived nearly around the corner at 133 Cheyne Walk.]

LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL
SIR
JAMES CLARK
ROSS
1800-1862
Polar Explorer
lived here

2 Eliot Place, Blackheath, SE3
Installed 1960
[Harding Dunnett and I went to see this. It wasn't far from his house but it took us awhile to find it.]

GREATER LONDON COUNCIL
CAPTAIN
LAURENCE
OATES
1880-1912
Antarctic explorer
lived here

309 Upper Richmond Road, London SW15.
Installed 1973
Removed when the house was demolished. [The plaque seems to have disappeared. I thought it had been sent off to the Oates Museum in Selborne but I was told by staff there that it was nowhere in sight. I seem to recall that Pam Whiffin of English Heritage had told me ten or so years ago that the plaque was under her desk. That's when EH was located in Savile Row.]