CARNIVAL trophies have been awarded to the project Casting the World: The Story of J.W.Singer & Sons, Frome.
Their entry ‘Boudica,’ based on the famous statue next to Westminster Bridge, London, which was cast at the Singer’s foundry in Frome in 1897, won two trophies in this year’s carnival.
Boudica won the Chairman’s Choice Cup for an entry in the evening parade and the 2nd prize, Arcadia Cup, a special award for most original entry in the Masquerades Section.
Boudica was designed and built by Mel Day and Aliss Vass with the help of 15 employees from Johnson Controls (where the trophies will now reside).
She will be seen again as part of the lantern parade at the Frome Extravaganza on the 29th November, where other lanterns inspired by Singer’s statues will also be paraded. It will also mark the end of the year-long celebrations of the bicentenary of the birth of John Webb Singer.
Pictured: June Barnes, chair of Frome Carnival and senior ambassador Katherine Strange, present Mel Day and Aliss Vaas from Light the Night, Jon Pleece from Johnson Controls, Martin Bax from Rook Lane Arts Trust and Sue Bucklow, curator of Casting the World: The Story of J.W.Singer & Sons, Frome.
