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Mr Saville’s Garden, Matching Green, Essex

Posted on July 28, 2023by Editor
Mr Saville’s Garden, Matching Green, Essex

In 1959 the inhabitants of Matching Green, east of Harlow in Essex, were horrified by the appearance of a 6 foot 3 inch statue of a naked lady in a village garden. The figure was the work of Horace Saville, the village blacksmith, and he claimed it was a model of how he wanted his future wife to look.

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