McKELLEN’S HERITAGE CONFUSION
THE LORD OF THE RINGS star SIR IAN McKELLEN is stunned to discover a plaque commemorating his birthplace has been put on the wrong house.
The actor has been honoured by English Heritage, who award plaques to eminent Britons on the site of their former residences, but McKellen claims the accolade in Burnley, Lancashire, has been wrongly erected.
He says, "They’ve gone and put the plaque on the wrong house.
"It’s something you begin to ponder upon when you reach my age - where you came from and what’s it all about. Where the great meaning of one’s heritage lies, things like that.
"We did live there at one point, but I’m certain that’s not where I was born.
I’m trying to track down the actual house." A spokesperson for the town’s tourist centre says, "As far as we are aware the plaque has been erected on the correct site, although we didn’t ask Sir Ian directly."
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