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Statue Of Billy Boston, Clive Sullivan And Gus Risman
A statue of the Welsh rugby league players Billy Boston, Clive Sullivan and Gus Risman was unveiled in July 2023 in the Cardiff Bay area of the Butetown district of Cardiff. The ceremony, in Landsea Square, took place in the presence of 88-year-old Boston and relatives of Sullivan and Risman. It was the first statue in Wales to depict named, non-fictionalised black men, although Boston is also represented by statues in Wembley and Wigan. Background Boston, Sullivan and Risman had left Wales in the 1950s to join the professional rugby league after being ostracised by the amateur rugby union - it was another 30 years before a black man was picked to play rugby for Wales. The project behind the statue, One Team. One Race: Honouring the Cardiff Bay Rugby Codebreakers, was set up in 2020 after calls from the Butetown community. Boston, Sullivan and Risman were chosen as representatives of the 13 local rugby players who had switched code to play rugby in northern England. Codebreaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardiff Bay Rugby Codebreakers (1)
Cardiff (; ) is the capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of in and forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area officially known as the City and County of Cardiff (). The city is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, eleventh largest in the United Kingdom. Located in the South East Wales, southeast of Wales and in the Cardiff Capital Region, Cardiff is the county town of the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Glamorgan and in 1974–1996 of South Glamorgan. It belongs to the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. A small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a port for coal when mining began in the region helped its expansion. In 1905, it was ranked as a city and in 1955 proclaimed capital of Wales. The Cardiff urban area covers a larger area outside the county boundary, including the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. Cardiff is the main commercial ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
