Send in your suggestions for the Wandsworth Green Plaque scheme 

Deputy Council Leader Kemi Akinola said: “Exploring our shared past and the contributions made to our borough by all the different communities that live here is a crucial part of our year as London Borough of Culture 2025. We’d love to hear your suggestions about people and places who have made a real difference to our borough.”  

The Wandsworth scheme is designed to honour notable people, places and events in the borough that are not covered by the English Heritage Blue Plaque Scheme. Wandsworth Council puts up green plaques every year, and there are 17 around the borough celebrating subjects as diverse as the first-ever football match and the recording studio used by The Who.  

This London Borough of Culture year, we are installing 12 new Green Plaques, generously funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund. These will include plaques to the Reggae legend Bob Marley, who played football and trained at Battersea Park, and the Fazl Mosque, which was the first purpose-build mosque in London, plus others based on public nominations.  

Plaques for New Convent Garden Market, Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans, and the many people who lived and worked on the site of Tooting Bec Hospital will all be installed in September.  

The person or place nominated must relate strongly to the borough of Wandsworth and people must have passed away more than 5 years ago. They must have had a positive influence on the life of the borough, and there must be somewhere visible to the public where the plaque can be fixed. See full criteria.

Anyone in the borough can nominate using the online form. Find out more and nominate.

The deadline to nominate is Friday 31 October at midnight.