Seen from a railway carriage
Passing through Maidenhead station on my way down south I got a glimpse of this statue sitting on a bench on the platform. Reading up about it, it's a statue of local resident Sir Nicholas Winton, dubbed the 'British Schindler' who smuggled 669 children, destined for the concentration camps, out of Czechoslovakia. The statue shows him reading his famous scrapbook which contained lists of all the children he helped to save. That was in 1939 when he was 29, he died in 2015 at the age of 105.
Amazing what you learn just by looking out of windows!
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