What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Mill Lane. Built 1840 by Sir John Gladstone father of Wm. Gladstone PM.
Sir John Gladstone built this house in Mill Lane in 1840; he was a prominent merchant and the father of William Ewart Gladstone, who served as Prime Minister four times.
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