Another, I was driving by an found this, caches by airhorns. I find the subject of the Pendle Witches quite fasinating and come across the tercet markers quite often ( Now theres an idea for a series )
Today I stumbled across Alice, but not the tercet.Also close by there is another memorial 1914 - 2014 bearing a poignant inscription.
Alice was unusual amongst the accused in that she was comparatively wealthy, the widow of a tenant yeoman farmer. She made no statement either before or during her trial, except to enter her plea of not guilty to the charge of murder. She was hanged, along with nine others, at Lancaster in August 1612.
The local Borough & Parish Councillor James Starkie led the scheme to commission the erection of a piece of public art, a sculpture of ‘Alice’ in an poignant and evocative stance, which is sited on Blacko Bar Road between Crowtrees and Roughlee.
The world famous Pendle Witches lived in the early 1600s at a time of religious persecution and superstition. Cllr Starkie added “The aim of the statue is to commemorate the leaving of Alice to Lancaster and to raise awareness of the true story of the witches. What the villagers wanted was a statue that told the real story of Alice Nutter and one that would make people say to themselves as they drove past ‘I thought she was meant to be a witch?’ Instead she looks like a lady of the times, with a dramatic poise, open to your own interpretation.”
The statue itself was designed and created by local artist and architectural steel engineer, David Palmer of DP Structures Ltd, also responsible for Nelson’s Shuttle.