List of hoax commemorative plaques
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This is a list of hoax commemorative plaques on permanent public display in locations around the world.
Europe
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{{Public art row
|subject = Angel Alley and Surrounds
|location = Angel Alley, London, E1
|image =
|artist = Eames Demetrios{{cite web|url=https://kcymaerxthaere.com/about/|title=About|access-date=2022-11-27|website=kcymaerxthaere.com}}
|coordinates = {{coord|51.515998|-0.0705101}}
|notes =
ANGEL ALLEY AND SURROUNDS
A generation of generations ago, at the time of the Rockall Ascendancy, most of this area, owned by the Royal Family of distant Rockall, was a fiefdom of filth and wretchedness. It was here, searching for her sister, that the formidable Esther Tabran clearly saw Crown Prince Jyorge furtively step out of Georges Yard that lethal morning. Too late to save Martha, Esther’s unbridled and unrepentant outrage was a key link in the chain that left the once mighty empire a mere rump of rock accenting the sea. Discover Endlen Kymhuir. PLAQUE PLACED BY KYMAERICAPROJECT.CO.UK
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{{Public art row
|subject = Raven Bjorn
|location = 17/18 Catford Broadway, London, SE6
|image =
|date = 2021{{Cite web|last=Ford|first=Sam Wilson|date=2021-11-17|title=Fake plaques "whitewashing our history", say opponents|url=https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/fake-plaques-whitewashing-our-history-say-opponents/#:~:text=By%20contrast%2C%20Mr%20Tsuruta%E2%80%99s%20plaques%20claim%20to%20be,capital%20city%20in%20the%20Marvel%20blockbuster%20Black%20Panther.|access-date=2022-11-06|website=londonnewsonline.co.uk|language=en}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thequeenofcatford.org/kat-and-raven-1|title=Lives of Kathrine and Raven|access-date=2022-11-06|website=thequeenofcatford.org}}
|artist = Tara Tsuruta{{cite web|url=https://www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk/locations/raven-bjorn/|title=Raven Bjorn. Fictitious actor|access-date=2022-11-06|website=plaquesoflondon.co.uk}}
|coordinates = {{coord|51.445333|-0.0218021}}
|notes =
Heritage of Catwanda
RAVEN BJORN 1899 - 1934 Star of stage and screen lived here 1917 - 1922{{cite web|url=https://www.thequeenofcatford.org/catz-factz/blog-post-title-one-5j6ts|title=The plaque|access-date=2022-11-06|website=thequeenofcatford.org}}
}}
{{Public art row
|subject = Roger Bucklesby
|location = Undisclosed park in North London, United Kingdom){{Cite web|last=Haynes|first=Tom|date=2022-03-17|title=The real story behind London's funniest park bench dedicated to a man who hated the park and everyone in it|url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/real-story-behind-londons-funniest-23414675|access-date=2022-09-26|website=mylondon.news|language=en}}
|image =
|date = August 2013
|artist = Jamie Maslin{{Cite web|last=Phillips|first=Tom|date=2013-09-03|title=The Roger Bucklesby Bench Plaque Is Real, Sort Of|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/the-roger-bucklesby-bench-plaque-is-real-sort-of#.skvrlwX5m|access-date=2022-09-26|website=BuzzFeed|language=en}}
|coordinates = Undisclosed
|notes =
In memory of
Roger Bucklesby.
Who hated this park,
and everyone in it.
}}
{{Public art row
|subject = Katherine Ford
|location = 17/18 Catford Broadway, London, SE6
|image =
|artist = Tara Tsuruta{{cite web|url=https://www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk/locations/katherine-ford/|title=Katherine Ford. Fictitious actor|access-date=2022-11-06|website=plaquesoflondon.co.uk}}
|coordinates = {{coord|51.445333|-0.0218021}}
|notes =
Heritage of Catwanda
KATHERINE FORD 1900-1978 Actress and social reformer lived here 1917-1922{{cite web|url=https://www.thequeenofcatford.org/catz-factz/blog-post-title-one-5j6ts|title=The plaque|access-date=2022-11-06|website=thequeenofcatford.org}}
}}
{{Public art row
|subject = Jacob von Hogflume
|location = multiple (Originally at 11 Golden Square, London, United Kingdom){{cite web|url=https://openplaques.org/people/3922|title=Jacob von Hogflume (1864-1909)|access-date=2022-09-26|website=openplaques.org}}
|image = VonHogflumePlaque.JPG
|date = 2012
|artist = Dave Askwith and Alex Normanton
|coordinates = {{coord|51.5113264|-0.1376076}}
|notes = English Heritage
JACOB VON HOGFLUME
1864-1909
Inventor of time travel
lived here
}}
{{Public art row
|subject = Llandegley International Airport
|location = A44 road, between Crossgates and Cefnllys, Wales{{Cite web|last=Charles|first=Sue|date=2022-11-13|title=Man ends 20-year Llandegley airport sign joke that cost £25k|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63600184|access-date=2022-11-13|website=BBC News|language=en}}
|image = Modern day folly (geograph 3821563) (cropped).jpg
|date = 2002
|coordinates = {{coord|52.2742151|-3.3265191}}
|notes = Llandegley International
Terminals 1 and 3
For Airport Café, follow signs for Terminal 1.
2 1⁄2m
}}
{{Public art row
|subject = Carswell Prentice
|location = 118 Hillfield Ave, London, United Kingdom
|image = Carswell Prentice 118 Hillfield Ave Crouch End London N8 8DN.jpg
|date = unknown
|artist = unknown
|coordinates = {{coord|51.584496|-0.1182126}}
|notes = The Society for the Promotion of Historic Buildings
Carswell Prentice
1891-1964
inventor of the
supermarket trolley
stayed here
in September
1932{{cite web|url=https://www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk/locations/carswell-prentice/|title=Fictitious Characters and Places|access-date=2022-09-26|website=plaquesoflondon.co.uk}}{{cite web|url=https://openplaques.org/plaques/9566|title=Carswell Prentice 1891–1964 inventor of the supermarket trolley stayed here in September 1932|access-date=2022-09-26|website=openplaques.org}}{{Cite web|last=Eliot|first=Henry|date=2018-09-04|title=Don't attack plaques – they are vital signs of our collective imagination|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/04/plaques-signs-commemorative-imagination|access-date=2022-09-26|website=The Guardian|language=en}}
}}
{{Public art row
|subject = Father Pat Noise
|location = O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
|image = The Fr. Pat Noise Plaque (O'Connell Street Bridge) (5680819873).jpg
|date = Christmas 2004{{cite news|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30258138.html|title=Mystery plaque to be removed from O'Connell Bridge|date=2006-05-10|work=The Irish Examiner|accessdate=2022-09-25 }}
|artist = Two brothers from a village near Blessington{{Cite news|last=Boland|first=Rosita|date=2006-05-13|title=What's the crack with the plaque?|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/what-s-the-crack-with-the-plaque-1.1002828|access-date=2022-12-03|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}
|coordinates = {{coord|53.347248|-6.259447}}
|notes = THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES
FR. PAT NOISE
ADVISOR TO PEADAR CLANCEY.
HE DIED UNDER SUSPICIOUS
CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN HIS
CARRIAGE PLUNGED INTO THE
LIFFEY ON AUGUST 10TH 1919.
ERECTED BY THE HSTI
}}
{{Public art row
|subject = Meteorite fall
|location = Whitworth Park, Manchester, United Kingdom
|image = Things in Whitworth Park - geograph.org.uk - 5485186.jpg
|date = 2015
|artist = Cornelia Parker{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/whitworthart/status/1049620797906722816|title=@WhitworthArt Official Twitter account|date=2018-10-09|access-date=2022-09-25|website=twitter.com}}
|coordinates = {{coord|53.458978|-2.229936}}
|notes = METEOR FALL
HERE IN THIS PARK
ON THE NIGHT OF
FRIDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2015
A METEORITE LANDED
AND WAS LOST{{cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5844395|title=Meteor Fall in Whitworth Park?|date=2018-07-16|access-date=2022-09-25|website=geograph.org.uk}}
}}
{{Public art row
|subject = Armorial bearings of the unrecognized microstate of the Principality of Thomond
|location = 5 Charlemont Street, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
|image = Armorial bearings at 5 Charlemont Street, Dublin 2, Ireland 02.jpg
|artist = Raymond Moulton O'Brien
|coordinates = {{coord|53.3324487|-6.2631978}}
|notes = Irish (in Gaelic script): Laṁ láidir an Uaċtar (English: The Strong Hand from Above){{Cite web|last=Comerford|first=Patrick|date=2011-06-03|title=Bloom-like walks and the story of the 'Prince of Thomond'|url=https://www.patrickcomerford.com/2011/06/bloom-like-walks-and-story-of-prince-of.html|access-date=2022-09-25|website=patrickcomerford.com|language=en}}
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North America
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{{Public art row
|subject = Ry Brauer
|location = High Falls, New York, United States of America
|image = Brauer-TVMurder.jpg
|date = August 2013
|artist = Norm Magnusson{{cite news |last1=Horrigan |first1=Jeremiah |title=Ulster artist's fake 'historic markers' make you think |url=https://www.recordonline.com/article/20120102/NEWS/201020308 |accessdate=1 September 2019 |work=Times Herald-Record |date=2 January 2012}}
|coordinates = {{coord|41.827222|-74.123889}}
|notes = ON THIS SITE STOOD RY BRAUER, TYPICAL AMERICAN TEEN, BY THE AGE OF 18, HE HAD WITNESSED OVER 30,000 MURDERS ON TV. (EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, 2007)
}}
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South America
{{Incomplete list|date=June 2024}}
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{{Public art row
|subject = nothing and no-one
|location = Carrera 9, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá Department, Colombia
|image = Villa de Leyva, Colombia 02.jpg
|date = unknown
|artist = unknown
|coordinates = {{coord|5.634819|-73.521492}}
|notes = El 13 de octubre de 1825 en esta casa no pasó nada, ni nació nadie importante (English: On October 13, 1825, nothing happened in this house, nor was anyone important born)
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See also
- Blue plaque, historical markers in the United Kingdom
- Anti-monumentalism (also: counter-monumentalism), a tendency in contemporary art that intentionally challenges every aspect (form, subject, meaning, etc) of traditional public monuments.
- List of hoaxes