Rise from factory to fame.

He began life as a factory boy but through grit and dedication rose to become Foreign Secretary and went on to the Nobel Peace Prize.

Now Newcastle City Council is honouring the memory of Arthur Henderson with a commemorative plaque.

Henderson left school at nine and started work in Robert Stephenson's locomotive works behind Newcastle Central Station three years later. Despite working 10 hours a day, he attended night classes and when he lost his job as an iron moulder and was jobless for 14 months he used the time to continue his education and worked as a Methodist lay preacher.

A leading trade unionist, he became chairman of the Labour Party in 1908 and then leader. He chaired the Geneva Disarmament Conference and in 1934, a year before he died, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.