The Portrait Bench is a simple bench with three life sized figures, chosen by the local community for their contribution to local life, culture or history.The figures are two dimensional, cut from two inch thick steel.
It is part of a national project which when complete will comprise a national collection of 230 portraits.
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From left to right the figures are:-
Since his injuries Mr McBean has run two full marathons, reached the base camp on Mt Everest using prosthetic limbs and completed The Three Peaks Challenge.
Captain Robert Falcon Scott RN (1868 - 1912) - Born in the city, Captain Scott won fame as a Polar Explorer who led two expeditions to Antarctica. It was on the ill fated second (1910 - 1913) when Scott's party reached the South Pole on 17th January 1912, only find that they had been beaten to the Pole by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian Expedition. On their desperate return journey Scott and his four comrades all died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold, but entered the panoply of British National Heroes.
Charles Darwin - Naturalist who proposed the theories of Evolution and Natural Selection.
Darwin's connection with Plymouth is that his famous five year voyage around the world on HMS Beagle left Plymouth on 27th December 1831, after being stuck in Plymouth for two months waiting for favourable weather.He didn't much like the town and described his time waiting for the Beagle to sail as "The most miserable I have ever spent".
Follow the course of this epic journey by clicking here
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