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Meet the Family with the Secret Recipe for making London’s Iconic Blue Plaques

By MessyNessy
October 29, 2015

Jimi Hendrix has one. Virginia Woolf has one. So does Karl Marx.

Since 1984 all the plaques have been hand made by just one family– and they’re pretty adorable…

Via Huck Magazine.


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