Men dressed up as Irish navvies who built the aqueduct.
Categories: Festival
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Sunday school festival, Kerridge Holy Trinity
Rev Betts vicar of Bollington in the 1930s. Rev Kingdon, vicar of Bollington 1945 to 1947.
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Gatley sculpture at the Bollington festival
Alfred Gatley sculpture entitled ‘Echo’. Born in Kerridge in 1816, Gatley became the leading English sculptor of the 19thC. He actually spent much of his career in Rome, and died there in some poverty in 1863.
Alfred Gatley was commisioned to sculpt three copies of ‘Echo’, she was a popular girl! One copy can be viewed at Gawsworth House.
