Portrait Bench, Viaduct Cycleway
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Portrait Bench, Viaduct Cycleway
Image: © Stephen McKay Taken: 9 Mar 2021
This metal artwork stands alongside the Viaduct Cycleway. It represents (from left to right): Ralph Dougherty, the 'Rugby Flyer', who was a star rider for Rugby Cycling Club in the 1930s; Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, a Rugby-born scientist and astronomer who jointly discovered helium; and Alice, Lewis Carroll's character from Alice in Wonderland. Portrait benches are a feature of Sustrans cycle routes and this disparate trio was selected by a public vote. In the same week as this photograph was taken, a letter appeared in a local newspaper, whose signatories included two councillors, advocating the reinstatement of the railway here, restoring a link between Rugby and Leicester while also providing a rail connection to Magna Park.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.387499
Longitude
-1.267783