'At Last, People Can See My Ray's Artwork'

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A widow's wish for people to see her husbands sculptures has come true with an exhibition of his work. Self-taught sculptor Raymond Taylor took up his hobby of carving wood after damaging nerves in his back in a fall while working as a rigger burner on the demolition of East Moors Steel Works in the 1970s, forcing him to give up his job.

His wife Elizabeth bought him wood chisel tools to get him started and at their home in Clive Street, Cardiff, he carved furniture as well as ornaments.

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'At Last, People Can See My Ray's Artwork'

But after being diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas in 1996, he lived until April 1998 wh...

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