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Isambard Kingdom BrunelPortsmouth 1806 - London 1859English mechanical and civil engineer who built dockyards, the Great Western Railway, a series of steamships and numerous important bridges and tunnels (Wikipedia) |
John Doubleday
Art Bronze Foundry (Chelsea) 1982 |
Statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel with his top hat and walking stick, standing on railway objects.
This statue of the great engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, which was presented to Bristol by the Bristol and West Building Society, was created by John Doubleday, and first unveiled on 26th May 1982. It was moved from its original site at Broad Quay in 2006, the bi-centenary of Brunel's birth. Not only does it now front the modern offices of Osborne Clarke, the firm of solicitors who did much of Brunel's legal work, but also waymarks the new, additional access to Brunel's great station, created with the development of Temple Quay. Another statue of Brunel, by the same artist, is located at Paddington Station, the eastern end of his great railway. |
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