On Friday 29th March, the Attenborough Elderflowers unveiled Attenborough stations latest attraction, a colourful mural alongside Platform 1.
This adds to the over 50 pieces of street art in Beeston and the surrounding area and the 25 planters on the platforms. The mural was completed over a week, despite the need to stop and start throughout the period of inclement wet weather.
The mural itself has been painted by the artiest Elliott Caine, who has carried out similar projects locally and it features some of the main attractions of the village – the Nature Reserve and Centre and the Norman Church whose steeple can be seen from miles around.
It also shows a Midlands Rail train in its original livery with 1864, the date the station was built. We hope it will encourage more people to come by train to see the village, its nationally listed buildings, the conservation areas and all the Reserve offers.
A huge thanks must go to East Midlands Railway (EMR) and Nottinghamshire County Council for helping to fund this project.
If you’d like to find out more about the Attenborough Elderflowers and the work they do, please email: [email protected]
Written by Verna Smerdon-White leader of Attenborough Elderflowers, the station adopters.
Photos: A number of the Attenborough Elderflowers at the official opening event and the mural in full glory.