Sofa, so good Abandoned couch is turned into a tourist attraction

A DUMPED sofa in the middle of a village has become an unexpected tourist attraction with Tripadvisor reviews and hundreds taking photos at the spot.

- Filipar GASPAR, Oliver ASTLEY

The two-seater settee was dumped on waste ground in the middle of Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, at the start of April.

But local photographer Alex Elton-Wall found potential in the sofa and its location and has now taken the portraits of more than 150 nearby residents at the popular site.

The abandoned sofa even has its own listing on TripAdvisor and a Facebook page titled Lydbrook Lounge with visitors posting photographs of themselves.

Alex said it has been an “amazing opportunity” to capture pictures of a community. He said: “A piece of rubbish turned into something fun - as an amateur documentary photographer it has been a great opportunity to photograph the local community.

“It is hard to take pictures of families these days and it has been an amazing opportunity to take pictures of the community.

“As people came down they made the sofa their own - people came with their families, their dogs, the landlord and landlady of the pubs came down as well.”