9 June 2014

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IT’S been two years in the planning, but the joint project by East Grinstead Town Council, the EGBA (East Grinstead Business Association) and the Blond McIndoe Research Foundation to erect a statue to Sir Archibald McIndoe is almost at an end.

Shrouded in tarpaulins, the anonymous-looking triangular shape would have given few clues to anyone travelling behind the flat bed lorry bringing it from the foundry as to what exactly was being transported.

But as it drew into the High Street and stopped outside Sackville College there was little doubt that beneath those dull wrappings was something really rather special.

The statue was briefly exposed as the old wrappings came off, but photographer Barnaby Durrant who took these photos for us didn’t want to spoil the surprise.

So if you want to see the statue in all its glory, then be in the High Street at 2.10pm on McIndoe Monday when Princess Anne will do the honours.

All photographs copyright of Barnaby Durrant