Val Kirkham, Mick Doherty, Dave Cunliffe and Andrew Savage of Padiham Sink Performing Arts, 1985
AN East Lancashire arts group was denied an unusual way to bring poetry to the masses.
Members of Padiham Sink Performing Arts Group had hoped to hold a nude poetry reading in the spa at Springer’s Sports Centre in Nelson in 1985.
But they were told they couldn’t because the organisers ‘didn’t want that sort of publicity’.
The group - Val Kirkham, Mick Doherty, Dave Cunliffe and Andrew Savage - vowed to continue to bring at to the masses in creative ways even though the plug had been pulled on their spa showcase.
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