RichardAult published Blue plaque commemorates Silverdale home of miner Joseph Cook who...

A typical North Staffordshire road lined with terrace houses 10,000 miles away from the Land Down Under is not somewhere normally associated the Australian Prime Minister.But a blue plaque has now been installed above number 86 Newcastle Street, Silverdale, informing passersby that Sir Joseph Cook lived there as a boy. It was commissioned by Newcastle Civic Society, at a cost of over £300, and was unveiled by the borough mayor, Ian Wilkes.Mr Wilkes said: "It's important that people like...