Blue Plaques for Women Engineers
The following blue plaques exist for women engineers and those in related disciplines. If you know of others, please get in touch. During 2024 we have plans to add another ten blue plaques to this list to commemorate those women involved with the Electrical Association for Women, as part of the Electric Dreams Festival of Womanpower, in celebration of the EAW Centenary. If you can help to make this happen, then please get in touch.
Hertha Ayrton
Physicist, Engineer and Suffragette 41 Norfolk Square, Paddington, London W2 1RX, City of Westminster Elizabeth Bowes Pioneer in coal mining industry Bowes House, St John's College. Durham Railway Station Rosalind Franklin Scientist and founder of molecular structure of DNA Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, South Kensington, London SW10 9QT Sarah Guppy Inventor 7 Richmond Hill Bristol Caroline Haslett Electrical Engineer, Champion of women in engineering, and pioneer of safety in electrical equipment Hazelwick Ave, Three Bridges, Crawley RH10 1LS Dorothy Hodgkin Crystallographer. Nobel laureate in Chemistry. 94 Woodstock Road, Oxford Daphne Jackson Nuclear physicist County Grammar School for Girls Peterborough St Omer Road in Guildford, Surrey Amy Johnson Aviator Vernon Court, Hendon Way, London NW2 2PE St Georges Road, Hull Ada Lovelace Mathematician and computer Programmer Kirkby Hall, Mallory Park - Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire 12 St James's Square, St. James's, London SW1Y 4LB Hilda Lyon Engineering, airship designer High Street, Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire Margaret Partridge Electrical engineer and pioneer of rural electrification in Devon Willand, Devon Dorothee Pullinger Aero and automobile engineer and entrepreneur Michaelson Road Bridge, Barrow-in-Furness. Nancy Astor First woman in Parliament in UK and champion of women in engineering 4 St James's Square, St James's, London SW1Y 6JU, City of Westminster Delia Derbyshire Electronic Music Engineer 104 Cedar Avenue in Coventry, West Midlands Verena Holmes Mechanical Engineer and Inventor Virtual blue plaque Born Highworth House, Maidstone Road, Ashford, TN24 8UD Anne Greaves Quarry Manager 9 Aire Street Goole Yorkshire |