THE Duke of Edinburgh will receive a special piece of memorabilia when he visits Wadworth's Northgate brewery on May 4.
To commemorate his first visit to the town since he reviewed the troops at Le Marchant Barracks on the bicentenary of the Wiltshire Regiment on July 24, 1956, he will receive a limited edition statuette of The Cooper, a piece of sculpture developed by Peter Hicks Associates of Littleton Panell, near Devizes, for the brewery.
The statuette depicts Wadworth's cooper, Alastair Simms, trimming the joints of a barrel.
Mr Simms is one of only eight master coopers in the country working exclusively on oak casks.
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