A BLUE plaque commemorating the founder of Terry’s of York has been unveiled in St Helen’s Square.

Confectioner and chocolatier Joseph Terry, who was born in 1793 and died in 1850, had his first factory and shop in the city centre square near the Mansion House.

The commemorative plaque has been installed by York Civic Trust, which said the small factory at the rear of ‘The Front Shop’ had made cakes, comfits, sugar sweets, marmalade, candied peel, mushroom ketchup and medicated lozenges.

When a new factory later opened elsewhere, the premises were retained as a shop, restaurant and ballroom, which now formed part of Carluccio’s restaurant, but the original shop front and lettering remained.