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Description: | Standing figure dressed in overcoat and cap. Additional Information: Ammon Wrigley (1861-1946) lived and died 'on the cold grey hills' of Saddleworth. He was born in Friarmere, Saddleworth in 1861 into a working-class family which was familiar with hardship and poverty. By the age of nine Wrigley was working as a part- timer in a local textile mill. He showed an early interest in books and literature and wrote his first poem at the age of twelve. An interest in the folklore and history of the district followed, and it was these aspects of the Pennine culture which he came to record and celebrate in his writings. In prose and poetry he offered an intensely parochial vision of a world that he knew was disappearing. Wrigley died in 1946 and, in keeping with his own wishes, his ashes were scattered at the Dinner Stone on Millstone Edge, Delph where a bronze memorial plaque was placed. | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Sculptor: Collins, James | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7554... | Go to resource |
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