Sister City 50th Anniversary – Stalybridge, UK
Posted by: dtrebilc
N 53° 28.942 W 002° 03.342
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This old cast iron beam from a demolished weaving mill was erected in 2005 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the twinning of Stalybridge in the U.K. with Armentieres in France.
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Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/08/2012
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Stalybridge has a heritage of textile manufacturing and was one of the earliest towns to develop that industry in the industrial revolution.
Armentieres was chosen as a twin city because it is of a similar size and has a similar heritage as Stalybridge. However there is also another tenuous link with famous World War I songs.
“It’s a Long Way To Tipperary”
was written in Stalybridge by Jack Judge and nearby to here is a statue of him with a soldier playing a mouth organ. Armentieres is actually in the title of the song
”Mademoiselle from Armentieres”.
The beam stands on the stones from mill’s gate posts and stands at the back of a small formal garden in Armentieres Square.