Sir Alfred Herbert's Induction Into Coventry's Walk of Fame
Coventry has created a 'Walk of Fame' in Priory Place near the Cathedral where the most famous of those with links to the city (as chosen by the public) are commemorated with plaques set into the pavement. On Saturday 26th May, Sir Alfred Herbert's plaque was unveiled at a ceremony at which Herry and his brother Piers represented the Herbert family and Herry spoke. Sir Alfred's gifts to the city were many, and some are enumerated in the brochure accompanying the first opening of The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum . It’s a great honour for the family of Sir Alfred Herbert that the public should have voted him on to the city’s Walk of Fame; he loved the city and in particular the many who worked with him and for him building up his highly respected machine tools business which was for a time, the largest in the world. He was born and brought up in Leicester, but from the time that he persuaded his father to allow him become an engineering apprentice – an unusual career ...