Bridgwater Blue Plaques

There are twenty-four blue plaques fixed to various buildings in Bridgwater and the surrounding district.

The plaques have been individually crafted by Leander Architectural.

Phase One December 2006

Phase Two March 2007

Franciscan Friary

In May 2012, a plaque to commemorate the Franciscan Friary was placed upon a specially-commissioned stone plinth located over the remains of a building known to have formed part of the Friary.

Docks

CROWPILL COAL YARD On a two hectare site behind this wall lay the 1871 coal yard of SULLY & COMPANY. Their ships brought coal from South Wales and from mines they owned in the Forest of Dean, it was distributed throughout the south-west in their own railway wagons. Redeveloped for housing in 1995 the yard, designed and built with mixed gague railway track, was the last remaining site of Brunel’s Broad Gague. The Sully family was prominent in the public life of the town and country.

Blue Plaques

Rural plaques

Lord Biffen commemorated at Otterhampton Village Hall The plaque was unveiled by Lady Sarah Biffen at noon on Tuesday, 3 February 2009, at the
Otterhampton Village Hall

Enmore School Blue Plaque The plaque was unveiled by Lady Gass on Thursday 25th November 2010 at the School.

Blue Plaques

More Blue Plaques are to follow.