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Our Town Gallery |
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Kay Memorial, Bury |
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In 1903 there was a meeting in the Co-op Hall in Knowsley Street, Bury to consider the erection of a memorial to John Kay, the Bury-born inventor of the Flying Shuttle. In attendance was the Earl of Derby and the address was given by Sir W.H. Bailey, who described Kay as 'wonderfully ingenious but a martyred man'. The memorial was subsequently constructed in a garden area formerly the indoor market and now known as Kay Gardens. |
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