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Alan Calvert Now retired after more than 40 years in full-time journalism, Alan takes a wry look at life in the 21st Century. You can also read Alan's column every Monday in The Bolton News . . .

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It may take time for Fred

THE other day I saw a large crowd of people standing round a Bolton statue, scratching their heads.

"That Benjamin Dobson doesn't really look like him, you know," one of them observed.

"They say the same about that Samuel Chadwick," someone else chipped in.

Just kidding.

People are saying this sort of thing about the 8ft Fred Dibnah in Oxford Street, but we all know that time dims perceptions and art will eventually become reality.

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