Dozens of historic places across the district are to be commemorated with blue plaques - and Telegraph & Argus readers are being urged to suggest appropriate locations.

Bradford Council has provided a £10,000 fund to allow existing plaques to be "spruced up" and for dozens of new ones to be installed at previously unrecognised places.

Now members of a working group, formed to spearhead the co-ordinated district-wide blue plaque scheme, are asking T&A readers to use their local knowledge to say where they want new plaques to go.

Mark Suggitt, Head of Museums, Galleries and Heritage for the Council, said: "The £10,000 gives us a nice chance to review what we already have by way of plaques and to investigate what else we want to commemorate.

"We are looking to acknowledge local events, buildings and people. The district has high-quality historic buildings and we are keen to hear ideas and suggestions from local people, with their huge knowledge."

An initial list of possible blue plaque sites has been drawn up, although some of those in Bradford city centre are already commemorated under the city's existing brown plaque scheme.

Possible sites include St George's Hall, the Wool Exchange, Salts Mill, Undercliffe Cemetery, the Ring o' Bells pub and the Victoria and Midland hotels.

The former sites of Busby's department store, the old Kirkgate Market and the Swan Arcade are also mooted as possibilities.

In Ilkley, the Gothic House, Heathcotes, the Old Bridge and the Methodist Chapel are among potential additions to the town's growing complement of blue plaque sites.

In the last four years, Ilkley Civic Society has brought about the installation of plaques at Ilkley Playhouse, Grove House, which was Yorkshire's first convalescent hospital, and Chapel House, the former Wesleyan Assembly Hall and Methodist Church on Wells Promenade.

Denise Shillitoe, of Ilkley Civic Society, said: "The blue plaque scheme we have had in Ilkley for the last three or four years has proved popular.

People have liked them, both the local people and visitors, because they provide a little knowledge.

"It is fantastic that the Council are putting up the money for more plaques because they are not cheap and the money has got to come from somewhere."

In Keighley, The Royal Arcade, library, Low Mill, Grove Mill and Cliffe Castle are likely to be among the favourites.

A number of famous figures from the past could also be among the candidates, including social reformer Florence White, Labour politician Barbara Castle and Keighley poet and playwright Gordon Bottomley.

Anthony Mann, chairman of Bradford Civic Society, said: "We want to ask the public what they feel needs a blue plaque.

"The current plaques in Bradford look a bit sad and forlorn, and they really need sprucing up using some of the money. From the remaining money, we should be able to put up roughly 30 new plaques."

The working group behind the scheme includes Bradford Civic Society, Ilkley Civic Society, Keighley Local Studies Library and the University of Bradford.

The following people and places have been nominated by the Bradford Civic Society to have new plaques or to have their existing plaques refurbished: Keighley Royal Arcade Library Gordon Bottomley Wimbourne Swire Smith Low Mill Grove Mill Town hall Cliffe Castle Cinema Bradford Smith Wigglesworth Barbara Castle Florence White Ted Hoyle Jacobs Well Shoulder of Mutton Edward Appleton Lister Mill JB Priestley's House Bronte birthplace St George's Hall Wool Exchange City hall Salts Mill Bradford Club The Odeon Cathedral ginnel Ring o' Bells Brown Muff Belle Vue Studios Busby's (site of) Low Moor Explosion (site of) Newlands Mill (site of) Victoria Hotel Midland Hotel Tong Hall BRI Kirkgate Market (site of) Paper Hall Swan Arcade (site of) Hockney's house (site of) Cinema adjoining Catholic church Ilkley Methodist Chapel Old Bridge Gothic House Heathcotes The White House Wells Terrace, Hillside (Darwin) Baildon Baildon Old Hall Idle Undercliffe Cemetery BIM