Statue – Frank Sidebottom – Timperley, Cheshire

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Frank Sidebottom is one of the strangest comedians ever to emerge from Greater Manchester and Cheshire. He was the creation of punk rocker, Chris Sievey, and essentially just a bloke in a fibre glass paper Mache head and a sharp suit, talking like George Formby. Frank was often rude, acidic and juvenile. He had various obscure cable TV shows, and he appeared in many clubs and cabaret shows with his puppet self, Little Frank, in tow. I saw him live a few times. I never found him particularly funny. He was featured in two biographical movies after Sievey died of cancer in 2010. The film Frank was heavily fictionalized though. Frank always claimed to be from Timperley which proudly displays his statue, though Sievey was actually from Ashton-On-Mersey in Sale, about five miles from Timperley. Images of Frank appear on the walls of shops and bars all over Manchester. Arthur Chappell