Macclesfield Town FC Community Mosaic is Complete!

After months of hard graft by myself and hundreds of local people, the Peaks & Plains and Macclesfield Town FC mosaic mural is up!  


Tom and Mark from B. Melling put the panels up whilst I directed (and got incredibly sunburned!) and Sean finished off the grouting.


Lads from The Adelphi Mill group are cutting out the silhouettes of the footballers as we speak and they will go up tomorrow.

The North End Wall at the Moss Rose, Macclesfield

Tom and Mark putting the first and largest panel up...

...three down 35 to go...

Sean Lloyd of Cavalry Tiling showing the panel produced by Cre8 Youth group and Melanie Lloyd of Tameside Social Services Re-enablement team.

the lads are really motoring now... 

 

Sean putting the finishing touches to the logos. 

The completed mosaic from the right:

 The completed mosaic from the left side: 

The footballer silhouettes being cut out by Kieran of Adelphi Mill Properties, Bollington.

All the silhouettes are of actual players. They will be painted and installed tomorrow at the ground.

Thank you...Alison Hepburn!

I would like to acknowledge my very clever and lovely friend, Alison Hepburn who, after reading her book 'A Beginner's Guide to Mosaics' and seeing her mosaics in her garden some years ago, gave me inspiration for creating creatures around the garden of the Loch Promenade. Thank you Alison for your amazing inspiration!

How cute are these?  The blue ladybird was made by Liz Courtie, a Manx artist living on the Isle of Man.  Liz volunteered during the delivery of the workshops and I must say that when I pulled a muscle in my back, I couldn't have done it without her! Thanks Liz!

Pam produced this lovely bee from Breakthrough Breast Cancer - thanks to you and Kim for coming to help install!

Now I know I've already said Jan made the Puss Moth butterfly caterpillar but was it that one, or this one?  Hm.. Thanks again to Jan and Tanya for helping.

Thanks also to Irene from Manx Cancer Care who brought two brothers, one of whom made this rather fabulous recycled common frog.

Macclesfield Town FC Community Mosaic - day 4

Well, that's another panel sorted...

...off to the David Lewis Centre this afternoon. 

This panel depicts the time in the 1900s when ladies were admitted free! I wonder if any men donned a skirt and tried to get in?

The other half of the panel shows the 1910 joy of the football club when they won the Cheshire Senior cup.