It would be a tragedy if Gerry Dalton’s fantastic creatures are lost forever | Rowan Moore

The Irish postal worker spent decades filling his home and garden with his peculiar and eccentric take on historyA marvel stands close to destruction. It is, or was, a dream world, created in a modest ground-floor flat, in which handmade statues and models conjured a fantastical and personal version of history. Brightly coloured, staring-eyed figures – Haydn, “a woman of the 1950s”, Marshal Ney, the Earl of Tyrconnell, “Duchess of Portsmouth Mistress to Charles the Second