A blue plaque is a permanent sign to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, which serves as a historical marker -kb with some placed by English Heritage and others by Portsmouth City Council.
There are a number of them in the city – we take a look at where some of them are and who they celebrate:
13. Dame Frances A Yates
Renaissance historian Dame Frances A Yates has a blue plaque at the house where she was born at 53 Victoria Road North, Southsea Photo: Google Streetview
14. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It may not be blue, but Arthur Conan Doyle is celebrated with a brown plaque which can be found on the side of Bush House, Elm Grove, Southsea where first two Sherlock Holmes novels were written. He practiced as a doctor in the city at No. 1 Bush Villas which formerly stood on the site. Photo: Contributed