The Blue Plaques project
 Designed to commemorate important sites and people over the last millennium, the Blue Plaques scheme consists of a trail around the town centre with eighteen cast-aluminium blue plaques full of detailed information and backed up with an impressive and colourful leaflet covering many more sites on the trail: 44 in total, each depicted by a miniature watercolour drawing and with a large-scale map of the town with the early features marked. The project has received warm commendations and enthusiastic reactions. The entire trail will take you between two and three hours to cover; a leaflet is available from the Tourist Information Centre in the High Street and at the Red House Museum, priced 75p. (The illustration is by artist Brian Green, who has postcards of the image for sale in aid if the McMillan Cancer Fund.) |
