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Thomas Cook

Melbourne, Derbyshire, 22 November 1808 - 18 July 1892
founded the travel agency that is now Thomas Cook Group
(Wikipedia)

James Walter Butler
1994

Description

Bronze statue on a plinth with on the sides bronze reliefs of a steam train and a ship near a tropical island.

Inscription(s)

THOMAS COOK
1808 - 1892

the statue was commissioned
by leicester city council
with assistance from
british railways community unit
and thomas cook (international) ltd

near to this site in
leicester's campbell st station
thomas cook organised the first
known major excursion from
leicester to loughborough in 1841

Signature

Butler '93

Annotation

Unveiled by Thomas Cook, great-great-grandson of the subject, on 14 January 1994.

Sculptor

James Walter Butler RA (London 1931), British sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Leicester City Council, Statues and Sculpture.

Locatie (N 52°37'53" - W 1°7'32") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbem010; Photograph: 25 October 2009
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