Thousands of children to meet famous faces (From Keighley News)

Thousands of children to meet famous faces

1:30pm Thursday 9th July 2009

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Dozens of famous figures will descend on the town centre again next week during Keighley Festival.

And more than a thousand schoolchildren will go along to meet them at Keighley Arts Factory. In attendance at the art gallery will be Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Elvis Presley, Henry VIII and Queen Nefertiti.

They’ll be joined by Robin Hood, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Thomas the Tank Engine and the Daleks.

The figures, both real-life and fictional, have all been made by pupils of local schools.

They will be brought together for the festival’s annual Madame Two-Swords waxwork exhibition.

The exhibition is just one of several events to come as the festival enters its second and final week.

Madame Two-Swords this year adopted the theme Time and Time Again, and looks at the history of mankind.

Exhibits also include a woolly mammoth, Stone Age people, Jonah and the whale, St George and Noah’s ark. There will be a family of street urchins, along with Henry Isaac Butterfield, the original owner of Cliffe Castle.

The exhibition is the result of a challenge issued to schools and children’s activity groups by festival co-ordinator Malcolm Hanson.

Mr Hanson said: “We did something similar last year and it was mind-blowing then.”

The public can visit Madame Two-Swords, at Keighley Arts Factory, from July 13-17, in the North Street building of Keighley college campus.

Open daily 10am-4pm, more details are available from Mr Hanson on 01756 709275.

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