Statue

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - steel statue

Site: Ashcroft, Coleridge-Taylor and Corbett steel statues (3 memorials)

CRO, Charles Street

{On a nearby bench:}

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:
Ronnie Corbett CBE Actor, comedian and star of the Two Ronnies and many TV sketch shows.

Samuel Coleridge Taylor 1875 - 1912 Musician, composer and professor of music who composed the cantata Hiawatha's Wedding Feast.

Dame Peggy Ashcroft DBE 1907 - 1991 Renowned Oscar winning actress, for over 60 years on the stage, screen and television.

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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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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