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Albert Promenade, LOUGHBOROUGH, LE11 1SA

At its junction with Great Central Road (right).

This eye catching mural by Buber Nebz (real name Dan Smith) graces a building at the junction of New King Street and Great Central Road. It depicts Air Vice Marshal James Edgar ‘Johnnie’ Johnson who was born in Barrow upon Soar and attended Loughborough Grammar School. After graduating as a civil engineer from University College Nottingham, he was initially articled to the borough surveyor of Melton Urban Council before joining the RAF in 1939. As a Spitfire pilot he flew more than 700 combat missions and shot down 38 German aircraft (the highest score of any RAF pilot). Johnson died in 2001 leaving money in his will for the benefit of pupils at his old school. This is one of a collection of murals around the town depicting famous local people.

Air Vice Marshal James Edgar Johnson, CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, DL (9 March 1915 – 30 January 2001) was educated at Loughborough Grammar School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Johnson_(RAF_officer)#

The mural commemorates Air Vice Marshal James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, a Spitfire ace during the Second World War, who was educated at Loughborough Grammar School.

Ordnance Survey cut mark benchmark described on the Bench Mark Database at http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm63667

The front entrance of Loughborough Endowed Schools. This collective consists of four private, independent and selective schools, three of which: Loughborough Grammar School (LGS), an all-boys' school; Loughborough High School (LHS), an all-girls' school and Fairfield Preparatory School, a co-educational preparatory school all share the same campus. In addition, Our Lady's Convent School joined the group in September 2015. Loughborough Grammar School (LGS) is named after Thomas Burton, a prosperous Loughborough wool merchant who left money to pay priests to pray for his soul after his death in 1495; these priests went on to found the school that would become LGS. The school was originally situated in the town centre but in 1852 the Trustees of the Burton Charity rebuilt it on its present large site known as the Burton Walks. This building and the headmaster's and boarding house, together with the lodge, were designed by John Morris and Charles Hebson of Lambeth. They are now Grade II-listed.

There is an OS benchmark Image at the base of the pillar at the right hand side of the pedestrian arch. There is another view of the lodge at Image

The junction of a private road (a school road) - Burton Walks - with Leicester Road (the A6). This imposing building is a Grade II-listed Tudor Gothic lodge & gate screen serving the former Loughborough Grammar School (now The Loughborough Endowed Schools). The lodge and screen were designed by John Morris and Charles Hebson of Lambeth and date from 1852. There is a pedestrian archway on either side of the drive, the walling ending in an octagonal gate piers, with pyramidal caps that echo the main polygonal turret. The lodge is currently used as offices for the establishment's Development Department.

Still has its original name 110 years or so after it was built by the Great Central Railway at the time of the opening of its line to London