File:Coney Weston village sign.webp

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English: The sign was designed by a local artist and erected in 2000 to celebrate the Millennium.

In the sky above St Mary’s church are B17 Bombers or Flying Fortresses from the 388th/562nd Bomb Squadron at USAAF Nettishall and would have been a common sight in the 1940s. The young lad playing the tin penny whistle is Robert Clarke, a farm labourer who, made his own original tin penny whistle in 1843. Robert with his son and a barrow of their belongings walked to Manchester, where he'd heard there were opportunities, making and selling whistles as he went to pay his way. When Robert reached Manchester he set up his factory in a shed and soon became a successful manufacturer. He called his tin whistles ‘Megs’, a Victorian nickname for a halfpenny, as this is how much he charged for them. He eventually made enough money that he was able to build two houses, a factory and a church in the nearby village of New Moston. He went back to Coney Weston and bought up the farm that he had previously lived in, using gold sovereigns which he carried in a Gladstone bag. A combined harvester can be seen in the fields representing agriculture and some locals including a horse and some ducks to the right of the church. On the horizon, behind the combined harvester, can be seen Riddlesworth Hall School, which is located in the north of the parish and was attended by Lady Diana Spencer.

The sign as a selection of local flora and fauna in the surrounds.
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