Blue Plaques - time for your votes

We asked you to nominate Derbyshire people who or places which you think should be honoured with one of our prestigious new blue plaques.

You came up with 63 ideas. It meant a tough job for our judges but they’ve come up with an exciting shortlist for you to vote on.

So now it is over to you to cast your vote and decide who or what should get the recognition. We’ve got six commemorative plaques to award and you can vote online.

You can vote for up to six nominations. We’ll tell you who’s or what’s won in the June edition of Derbyshire First as well as here on the website.

The nominees are:

Richard Arkwright Junior - entrepreneur.
Baroness Olave St Clair Baden-Powell - heroine of the Girl Guides Association
Jedidiah Buxton – untaught mathematical genius
Bill Foulke – amazing goalkeeper
Sir John Gell – Civil War hero
The Hardinge Arms Public House - home of the Newton Wonder apple
Will Hay – popular comedian of the 1930’s
Llewellyn Jewitt - Illustrator, engraver, lithographer, publisher and author
Arthur Lowe – Captain Mainwaring in Dad’s Army
Sir Joseph Paxton – Chatsworth House head gardener and famous designer
George Stephenson – “Father of the railways”
Francis Wright – the driving force behind St Pancras

To vote online click on the orange name on the left hand side to make your choice.

If you don't want to vote online you can fill in the voting paper in the related documents section and return it to:

Blue Plaques Vote
Derbyshire County Council
County Hall
Matlock
DE4 3AG

or hand it in to your local library by the Friday 30 April deadline.

Blue Plaques - time for your votes

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