Aliens in Tod

Lillie is going on a boundary walk today, an annual event that secures the old boundaries of Todmorden and places like Lumbutt and Mankinholes, she goes with the scouts.

I had heard mention of an UFO space ship banded about but had not seen anything about aliens landing in Todmorden.  Well today I found out what people were talking about, it was the one and only spaceship that had been built in Todmorden by a local firm.  This is it being driven through the narrow streets of the town in 1971. 

The surroundings in Todmorden – all narrow, sooty streets and factories chiselled into the steep Pennines – could not have been more incongruous. The town’s mayor, Donald Rigg, arranged for a prototype of the house (the only Futuro ever manufactured in the UK) to feature in the 75th anniversary of Todmorden’s borough charter, in 1971. That summer, it was mounted on land outside a medical centre and used as a ticket office for celebratory events. Hundreds turned out to see it paraded through the streets by lorry and then put in place by crane. It looked as if the locals had captured a spaceship.

The Futuro was designed by a Finnish designer and probably designed as a small home.  Prototype of the 'Tiny Home' maybe........