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Maghull blue plaques page. Blue Plaque ..."celebrates a person's connection with an actual building and transforms bricks and mortar into living history. All sorts of buildings are included in the scheme, from the smartest houses to small flats. Plaques bring a house to life and draws attention to the irreplaceable heritage of domestic architecture all around us. There are selection criteria: either one hundred years from birth, or twenty years from death, must have passed for a candidate to be eligible, the building associated with them must still exist, and we only commemorate an individual once... A History of Blue Plaques The idea of erecting "memorial tablets" was first proposed by William Ewart MP. In 1866 the Society of Arts founded an official plaques scheme. In 1901, the plaques scheme was taken over by London County Council (LCC), which erected nearly 250 plaques over the next 60 years and gave the scheme its popular appeal. It was under the LCC that the blue plaque design as we know it today was adopted, and the selection criteria were formalised. On the abolition of the LCC in 1965, the plaques scheme passed to the Greater London Council (GLC). Since 1986, English Heritage has managed the blue plaques scheme, in London until 1998, and nationally since then. Plaques around Maghull
English inventor of the "Meccano" system 'The Hollies', Station Road
Frank Hornby
First Factory
"Meccano"
Sefton Video
English theologian and teacher
St. Andrews rectory
Welsh builder and astronomer
Little Acre
Italian author and dramatist
'Jellys' Corner', Station Road
English shipping magnate
Quarry Brook House
Aintree Grand National
Sefton Meadows
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