Blue plaques: Do you live in an English Heritage building?

An English Heritage blue plaque to commemorate Herbert Chapman the Arsenal Football Club manager.

Blue Plaques linking prominent historical figures with buildings around London are celebrating their 150th anniversary this year with singer Freddie Mercury and footballer Bobby Moore receiving memorial plaques. Do you have a plaque on your home or workplace?

The plaques were founded in 1866 and there are now over 900 dotted around the capital and eight outside London with the scheme currently run by English Heritage.

The first blue plaque granted to the poet Lord Byron in 1867 was destroyed when his house in Holles Street, Cavendish Square was demolished and the longest surviving plaque from the same year commemorates the French Emperor Napoleon near St James's Square.

Did you move to a building with a blue plaque because of the prestige attached to it? Or did having a plaque on your building encourage you to find out more about the celebrity in question?

We'd like to hear your stories and see photos of blue plaques outside your homes and workplace. You can contact us in the following ways: