THE East Anglian Railway Museum, at Chappel, is where a Colchester-based group called Seymour played their first gig 20 years ago.

Later they became Blur and the rest, as they say, is history.

Now, the building has been presented with the Performing Right Society’s first plaque to commemorate the fact one of Britpop’s biggest bands started there.

The parents of Graham Coxon, guitarist with Blur, watched the society’s chairman Ellis Rich unveil the sign.

Pauline Coxon said: “I’m very proud and it is amazing it is the first to be handed out.”

Mrs Coxon does not remember the gig itself though.

She said: “We must have driven him here with his equipment, but I don’t remember it. We used to drive him to lots of places and village halls.”

Blur returned to their roots and played at the venue earlier this year, prior to wowing crowds at Hyde Park and Glastonbury.

Mr Rich added: “These places get forgotten in the story of so many of our famous bands and we are determined that they should not be forgotten.”