Now never one to pass up a detective story here is one for anyone with a magnifying glass, a second hand violin and time on their hands after solving the case of the Red Toad Diamonds.
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It is the mystery of what happened to this chap. I have written about him before and he reappeared in a story yesterday. For nigh on 80 years he adorned the top of the Assize Courts in Manchester and ended up in the garden of Bailey’s farm on the corner of Sandy Lane and St Werburgh's.*
And then he disappeared and that disappearance has set quite a few people off on wanting to know his final resting place.
None more so than my new friend Catherine who even gave him a name.
I would like to think he went to a good home somewhere in Chorlton or perhaps he is looking across to the rose bushes in well healed Bramhall.
Sadly it is more likely that he is hardcore under one of our motorways.
Still we shall see if there are any takers.
Location; unknown
Picture; stone figure 1980, from the collection of Tony Walker
* A little bit of the old Assize Courts in a farm house garden in Chorlton, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/a-little-bit-of-old-assize-courts-in.html
And then he disappeared and that disappearance has set quite a few people off on wanting to know his final resting place.
None more so than my new friend Catherine who even gave him a name.
I would like to think he went to a good home somewhere in Chorlton or perhaps he is looking across to the rose bushes in well healed Bramhall.
Sadly it is more likely that he is hardcore under one of our motorways.
Still we shall see if there are any takers.
Location; unknown
Picture; stone figure 1980, from the collection of Tony Walker
* A little bit of the old Assize Courts in a farm house garden in Chorlton, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/a-little-bit-of-old-assize-courts-in.html