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Here is a world record of the largets mosaic of a collection of pictures to make my great grabndad when he was a brae knuckle boxer when he was 17, all us grandkids/great grandkids have a picture of him thought i would share with you guys:-
it was the worlds largest mosaic of my great grandad when he was 17,,,,this is the BBC reporting on it in Birmingham and E&S:-
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Arthur James Bunce in 1926 when he was also 17.
A Black Country boxer has been immortalised as the image of the world’s largest photo mosaic.
An historic portrait of amateur fighter Arthur James Bunce, from Tipton, was chosen as the winning picture for the world record attempt, which saw a giant version of his image recreated with more than 112,000 photographs.
The huge 30m by 30m mosaic successfully broke a world record as the largest project of its kind and was unveiled outside Thinktank at Millennium Point in Birmingham.
It was created as part of The Big Picture, an arts project which saw thousands of people send in photos from across the region.
The winning image was chosen from the thousands of entries and was sent in by the boxer’s 18-year-old granddaughter Lucy Moore, also from Tipton.
Originally taken in 1926, it is a portrait of Arthur Bunce taking part in boxing training as a 17-year-old.
Born in Dudley Port, he spent his working life at Patent Shaft steelworks in Wednesbury.
He had 14 children and died in 1987 at the age of 78, but the photo has continued to be an inspiration to all of his family.
Former Alexandra High School and Sandwell College student Lucy, a mobile beauty therapist, said she was totally overwhelmed by the final mosaic.
“It still hasn’t hit me really, everyone is just so excited about it.
“This photo is so important to my family,”she said.
“I never got to meet my granddad but he and my nan were always at the heart of our family.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7578855.stm
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2008/08/25/boxers-image-in-knock-out-mosaic/
it was the worlds largest mosaic of my great grandad when he was 17,,,,this is the BBC reporting on it in Birmingham and E&S:-
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Arthur James Bunce in 1926 when he was also 17.
A Black Country boxer has been immortalised as the image of the world’s largest photo mosaic.
An historic portrait of amateur fighter Arthur James Bunce, from Tipton, was chosen as the winning picture for the world record attempt, which saw a giant version of his image recreated with more than 112,000 photographs.
The huge 30m by 30m mosaic successfully broke a world record as the largest project of its kind and was unveiled outside Thinktank at Millennium Point in Birmingham.
It was created as part of The Big Picture, an arts project which saw thousands of people send in photos from across the region.
The winning image was chosen from the thousands of entries and was sent in by the boxer’s 18-year-old granddaughter Lucy Moore, also from Tipton.
Originally taken in 1926, it is a portrait of Arthur Bunce taking part in boxing training as a 17-year-old.
Born in Dudley Port, he spent his working life at Patent Shaft steelworks in Wednesbury.
He had 14 children and died in 1987 at the age of 78, but the photo has continued to be an inspiration to all of his family.
Former Alexandra High School and Sandwell College student Lucy, a mobile beauty therapist, said she was totally overwhelmed by the final mosaic.
“It still hasn’t hit me really, everyone is just so excited about it.
“This photo is so important to my family,”she said.
“I never got to meet my granddad but he and my nan were always at the heart of our family.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7578855.stm
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2008/08/25/boxers-image-in-knock-out-mosaic/
