Legacy
Parkes is remembered in several locations: the Plastics Historical Society placed a blue plastic plaque on his home in Dulwich, London, in 2002. The Birmingham Civic Society erected a Blue Plaque commemorating him in 2004 on the original Elkington Silver Electroplating Works (The old Science Museum), Newhall Street, Birmingham . There is also a plaque on the wall of the site of the Parkesine Works . In September 2005 Parkes was posthumously inducted into the American Plastics Academy’s Hall of Fame . He is buried in West Norwood Cemetery although his memorial was removed in the 1970s.
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