Trail Gets Regional Coverage from BBC

A trail of plaques celebrating “creative legends” who have links to a North Yorkshire market town has been unveiled.

The 13 plaques celebrate figures ranging from composers and painters to fishermen and cobblers, including artist JMW Turner and film director Ken Loach.

Josie Beszant, from Masham Art Gallery, who created the trail, said while some of the plaques remembered “serious artists”, others celebrated “local legends”.

“We realised there’s this rich history of artists and makers and musicians living here over the last 300 to 400 years, but they weren’t written down in any one place,” she explained.

Nearly half the population of Masham took part in a vote on social media to decide who should be commemorated on the plaques, Ms Beszant said.

She had previously written about the historical figures in her blog and, after receiving positive feedback, she decided the “vibrant creative community” of the town needed to be properly celebrated, she added.

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