Tim Bobbin in Urmston, Trafford, Greater Manchester

The Tim Bobbin pub, Flixton Road, Urmston, Trafford, Greater Manchester, named after the writer and caricaturist John Collier (1708–86).

Inside the pub, apart from unfortunate reflections of windows and myself:

 

'Tim Bobbin

This J. D. Wetherspoon pub takes its name from Urmston's very own poet
John Collier, alias Tim Bobbin. Collier was born in 1708, one of nine children
of a teacher and curate, in a cottage opposite Urmston Hall. He came to
national notice in 1746, with his best-known book, Tummus and Meary,
which was hailed as a classic. However, his concentration on writing in
dialect largely confined appreciation of his work to the North West.'

My other post on Tim Bobbin / John Collier:

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John Collier / Tim Bobbin in Rochdale

Other Sculptures in Worthington Park, Sale, Greater Manchester

Worthington Park, Sale, where there are several chainsaw wood sculptures by Tim Burgess. This is called 'The Wizard', and was created from a tree stump in 2008.

 

This one is 'Snail Bench' and includes a snail trail that I missed.

 

I couldn't see any details for this sculpture.

 

Here again, there were no details.

 

'The Worthington Park Lions' were unveiled in 2006, although the name of the artist is not mentioned.

 

Finally, the park's newest (June 2013) acquisition is an obelisk in the sunken garden inscribed 'Companionship is to the soul / As sun is to the garden'. I've no idea of the origin of this quotation and I'd probably be doing the author an injustice if I suggested Patience Strong, but the sculpture was put here by the Cyril Flint Volunteers, a charity whose purpose is to befriend lonely elderly people.

Robert Bolt in Sale, Greater Manchester

13 Northenden Road, Sale, Trafford.

 

'ROBERT BOLT

(1924–1995)

Playwright and Screenwriter

Author of

"A Man For All Seasons"

was born in this house

15 August 1924'

 

The play A Man for All Seasons was published in 1960, and turned into a screenplay by Bolt for the film that was released in 1966. It's probably slightly less well known that Bolt also wrote the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).