FINISHING touches to a town square named to honour a king of the ring have been unveiled.
Mayor Councillor Wilf Brogan unveiled a decorative railing on Golborne's Peter Kane Square, two years after the memorial to the battling blacksmith first opened.
The rail features a round plaque and two panels containing information about the wartime world champion plus historical facts about the old mining community.
Kane was world flyweight champion from 1938-1943 and died in 1991 at the age of 73. Golborne residents voted overwhelmingly to name the £120,000 square in his honour. At the junction of High Street and Heath Street it occupies the site of the former New Inn which was demolished in the 1980s.
It includes an open paved area with new seats, stone walls and planting and its centrepiece is a clock, designed by local artists Brian Taylor and Tony Staunton-Unsworth, which reflects aspects of Golborne history.
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