A popular karate teacher based in Blackrod has been awarded a prestigious Blue Plaque for her outstanding achievements to the local community. Amanda Winstanley has been teaching karate at ...

The first plaque put up under Historic England’s National Blue Plaque Scheme was in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, last February, honouring Guyanese nurse and midwife Daphne Steele, who became the ...

The first blue plaque to commemorate the life of a child will be unveiled at the house where he died. George Brewster, 11, became trapped in a chimney of a former Victorian pauper asylum in ...

ENGLISH Heritage launched a working group yesterday tasked with increasing diversity in its London blue plaques scheme. Only 4 per cent of the more than 900 plaques on buildings across London ...

A commemorative blue plaque scheme has been launched in Neath Port Talbot to celebrate notable people, places, and events that have taken place across the county borough. The decision was first ...

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A Victorian chimney sweep has become the youngest person to be honoured with a blue plaque. George Brewster died at the age of 11 in 1875 after being forced to enter a chimney where he became stuck.

Pop producers Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman have received a blue plaque outside the “magical building” affectionately known as “The Hit Factory” where they created countless ...

AN 11-year-old chimney sweep whose death led to a change in Victorian child labour laws is to become the youngest Briton to be honoured with an official blue plaque. George Brewster became the last ...

A chimney sweep whose tragic death at the age of 11 inspired reform has become the youngest person to be honoured with a Cambridge blue plaque. George Brewster died in 1875 after tragically being ...