An appeal for people to nominate special places where blue plaques could be located has met with a swift response from Telegraph & Argus readers.

Suggestions have been rolling in via letter, e-mail and telephone since Bradford Council allocated a £10,000 kitty to allow existing plaques to be "spruced up" and for new ones to be installed.

Historic mills, a brewery, churches and two market places are among the more serious nominations. Tongue-in-cheek suggestions have included the city centre site of the proposed Westfield shopping development and the Blue Pelican lap-dancing club.

One of the first responses to the appeal came from Steve Stanworth, who put forward the Old Bell Chapel, at Thornton.

Mr Stanworth, site co-ordinator for the Old Bell Chapel Action Group, said: "This is the place where Patrick Bronte was minister from 1815 to 1820 before moving to Haworth.

"Four of the Bronte children were christened in the chapel after being born in the Bronte house on Market Street, in Thornton.

"Members of the Old Bell Chapel Action group have been clearing the grounds for the last six years ,and we are now reaping the benefits of this with more and more visitors to the site.

"I think this is an important part of Bradford's heritage and as such deserves consideration for a blue plaque."

Norman Backhouse, of Fountain Drive, Liversedge, said: "I would love to see St Luke's Hospital in the nominations, as it became the first municipal general hospital in the country shortly after the end of the First World War."

He agreed with the nominations of Lister's Mill and Salts Mill in an early list of contenders put forward by Bradford Civic Society.

P Wadsworth, of Woodside Road, Low Moor, wrote in to say she would like to put forward the site of Low Moor Iron Works.

She said: "It was world renowned for more than 200 years."

A 30ft fly wheel to commemorate the iron works is located on a patch of green space at the junction of New Works Road and Huddersfield Road, and a blue plaque would be further recognition of the area's rich industrial heritage.

Suggestions via the Telegraph & Argus website included Timothy Taylor, a former tailor who founded a brewery in Keighley during the industrial revolution.

The brewery was initially located in Cook Lane when it opened in 1858, before moving to larger premises at Knowle Spring in 1863.

Shipley's clocktower, which forms part of the town's indoor market, has also been nominated by a reader, who said: "It is iconic and, when I lived in Shipley, it always meant I was near home when I saw it."

Another reader suggested that a blue plaque should be placed on the former Rawson Hotel, on the corner of Rawson Street and John Street, Bradford.

The eye-catching building with its domed drum, built in 1899, originally formed one end of the frontage to the market.