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New Bust for Bolton Museum

As we learned late last year, Bolton Museum, Aquarium and Archive will open later this year with a new bronze bust of Fred Dibnah by Bolton born artist Dr John Pilkington.

The making of a portrait bust cast in bronze would mean that Fred’s bust would undergo the industrial process of being poured in molten metal, something that Fred loved so much.

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I have to say it looks much better than other busts of Fred that we have seen before. What do you think?

But you will have to wait for a while before you can see it:

Bolton Museum, Aquarium and Archive is to undergo a major refurbishment in order to highlight the importance of the town’s most famous invention.
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As a result, the gallery will close to the public on January 4, 2010 for approximately 10 months while the £530,000 project is carried out.
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The new gallery will be divided into three sections, looking at industrialisation and the impact of the invention of the Spinning Mule; the subsequent developments in Bolton since the textile industry declined and the lives of Boltonians past and present.

Highlights will include a “talking heads” display featuring anecdotes from the characters of Samuel Crompton and Richard Arkwright plus a new bronze bust of Fred Dibnah.

Please let me know in the comments if you know anything about the new bust.

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