Site: Adams, Howard and Tull - steel statues (3 memorials)
N15, West Green Road, Downhills Park
{On the bench in front of the statues:}
Plaque 1:
The characters for this Portrait Bench chosen by your community celebrate Sustrans winning a nationwide vote in 2007 to create new walking and cycling routes across the UK, funded by the Big Lottery Fund. www.Sustrans.org.uk
Plaque 2:
Walter Tull 1888 - 1918 played for Tottenham Hotspur; amongst the first Afro-Caribbean players in the football league and the first black British army officer.
Nicola Adams MBE first woman to win Olympic boxing gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics.
Luke Howard 1772 - 1864 chemist and meteorologist who created a naming system for cloud formations and recorded them in paintings.
Find out more about these local people at... {broken web link}.
But we hunted around and found a map showing all the Sustrans Portrait Benches around the country.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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