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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Niamh Lewis

Man's 'scrap metal rope' find now worth £3k

A man who found scrap metal ship cable had it designed into a chair that is now up for sale for £3,000.

Nick Wright, an author and artist, was inspired to create the twisted black steel chair after spending time at the then, "abandoned and ghostly" Albert Dock as a schoolboy. Now the design is being sold in a prestigious furniture gallery in London.

Nick said: "My first memory is the foghorns on the Mersey. As a kid, my sole talent was for art, my favourite place, Liverpool’s derelict Albert Dock.

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