Another statue

Published: Friday, 04 December 2009

INSTEAD of the statue of cricketer Freddie Trueman being placed outside Skipton Town Hall, there are plans to erect it at the canal basin instead.

The life-sized £90,000 bronze of the Yorkshire and England cricketer will be erected on land given by Craven District Council.

The Freddie Trueman Statue Appeal was set up in 2007 by Northern Rail, the council and Fred's widow, Veronica, raising the money for sculptor Graham Ibbeson to create it.  He also created the bronze of Eric Morecambe in the Lancashire comic's seaside home town.

Freddie had lived near Gargrave since 1970 and died in 2006 at the age of 75.

However, readers of narrowboatworld will know only too well of the outcome of statues by the waterways...