A willow figure - commemorating the enigmatic Susannah Knight, a local former school teacher - standing in the Astley Hall Walled Garden, Chorley. Susannah travelled the world compiling a list of the 'Chorley Pals', a group of young men from Chorley (some of whom she taught French in 1914-1915), and who fought and gave their lives in WW1, mostly at the Somme. These books of remembrance, the "Golden Books", are available to view at Astley Hall.
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