[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

Last week I visited Nelson and in the centyre I saw a newly-erected piece iof 'sculpture' or 'art'. It takes the form of a 40ft high model of a weaver's shuttle. It is made out of iron which has gone a rusty colour. I don't usually like this rustuing, but it gives the shuttle the appearance of dark wood. It hasd a stainless steel cap and the centre, where the cop of cotton goes, it is lit up (at night) It is set in a sort of small amphitheatre. I liked it.
If Accrington had such a sculpture, what form would it take? A shuttle is very symbolic, so we could have one of those. A giant acorn? An actual Lancashire loom made by Bulloughs? A small deer, a hind, if the Town Hal want to use the word Hyundburn rather than Accrington? A WW1 soldier?

Anybody else seen it?

Any other ideas to pass ionto HBC? The soldier might be the preferred choice in the short term, with the centenary of WW1 & the Pals' formation coming up, and with spending likely to be curtailed.

It is being officially opened in August by Tony Livesey of the BBC, a former Nelson Leader reporter. Forgetting the mayor or any councillors, who would we get to 'open' it. Retlaw? The Chief of the Armed Services? The Colonel of the Queen's Lancaster Regt? William & Kate?

Another of thi ideas, we once had a steam engine, but thats gone rusty, all thats left is a gear wheel at bottom of Ormerod St.
As for the statute of a WW1 soldier, who's gonna pay for that unless, we nick one off Haslingden, or Clayton's Memorial's, then we'd have to have numerous committee's to decide where to put it.
The last committee were supposed to design a horse, and finished up with a camel.
If tha prepared to roll thi sleeves up I can show thi how to make, mold, and cast a bronze statue, cost a bit of brass just furt materials, besides 1/2 ton of coke to melt the metal.
Retlaw.