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Five concrete relief panels depicting local people, events and symbols. The first panel contains portrait reliefs of Edward, Earl of Chester and Sir Robert de Stokeport along with their coats of arms. Panel two features Richard Shea, the founder of Stockport Grammar School and Richard de Vernon, fourteenth-century rector, also flanked by coats of arms. The figures on panel three are John Lombe, an eighteenth-century mill owner, and Colonel Robert Duckenfield, a Parliamentarian commander, presented in battle dress. The panels on either side of the figures contain coins (on the right), with seals and trade tokens on the left. Between the two figures is a coat of arms. The fourth panel depicts Richard Cobden, Samuel Bamford and a representative Cheshire Farmer of the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.
Title
BHS Relief
Date
1978 or before
Medium
concrete
Measurements
H 320 x W 2400 x D (?) cm
Accession number
SK1_FM_S070
Acquisition method
commissioned by British Home Stores
Work type
Sculpture
Custodian
British Home Stores
Work status
extant
Unveiling date
1 January 1978
Access
at all times
Inscription description
panel E, on the store entrance side: BRITISH HOME / STORES / STOCKPORT / 1978 / 1934; panel D: Royal Hatters / Christie's Pigeon Post Richard Cobden Samuel Bamford The Cheshire Farmer; panel C: 1732 1642; panel B: 1487 1334; panel A: 1260 1239