Rochdale town centre was completely packed out to welcome the astonishing Little Amal puppet, as she made her penultimate stop on an epic 8,000km journey.
Amal is a three-and-a-half metre puppet in the image of a nine-year-old refugee girl, searching for her lost mother. She was created as a public art projected produced for Good Chance in association with Handspring Puppet Company - famous for creating the horse puppets in War Horse. READ MORE : Best photos as hundreds brave weather to welcome giant refugee puppet Little Amal to Wigan Amal initially set off from the Syrian border in Turkey back in July.
Seven countries and more than 60 towns and cities later, the puppet found itself in the middle of Rochdale this afternoon (November 2).
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