Save the chicken-wire Mr Darcy! The push to preserve the fantastical works of ‘Wigan’s Gaudi’

Save the chicken-wire Mr Darcy! The push to preserve the fantastical works of ‘Wigan’s Gaudi’

Kevin Duffy was an eccentric who sculpted everything from a mini pub to a lion’s den to a Tudor village. But after his death, the future of this outsider artist’s work is in doubtKevin Duffy’s fairytale was born on a dumping ground. Nobody else could see it, but to him, the overgrown remains of a 1920s bowling green promised untold potential. It was there he spent the last decades of his life creating castles, characters, and crude Tudor facades…