Cary Grant’s humble Bristol roots honoured with blue plaque

Cary Grant’s family struggled to make ends meet, but he rose to stardom. Photograph: PA Media

The humble West Country beginnings of one of Hollywood’s most glittering stars is being commemorated with the unveiling of a Historic England national blue plaque at his beloved childhood home.

Archie Leach may have transformed into that epitome of well-heeled sophistication, Cary Grant, but he never forgot the old apple tree and his father’s vegetable garden at 50 Berkeley Road in Bristol.