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When the Green was being considered, one of the main things villagers requested was a Nature Trail. We have, with the help of Young People’s Group, the GREENiS now nearly brought the plans to fruition. Clay Faces workshops have been held, with the purpose of making up to 350 masks which will represent the employees from Place’s Pipe Works, which used to stand on the site of the Green. It shows the people leaving the works at the end of a day. Two pipes made at the works have been retrieved from Sett End Playing Fields and are to be placed where the famous ‘twin chimneys’ stood on the green. The people are supposed to be coming out from between them, as if they were the factory gates. The clay was kindly donated by Shaw’s of Darwen, who are also glazing and firing the finished artworks. This piece of Public Art was conceived by Jane Lim, pictured below at a workshop, who is an MA Student at the University of Bolton and was approached by the Trustees to help with the History and nature trail, history being included because of the many associations with industrial archaeology on the site and the Saxon Road which runs along one boundary. |
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