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Sunday Mercury
|May 04, 2025
A DUMPED sofa in the middle of a village has become a tourist attraction.
The two-seater settee was dumped on a waste ground in the middle of Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, at the start of April and now has TripAdvisor reviews and hun dreds taking photos at the spot.
Local photographer Alex Elton-Wall has now taken the portraits of more than 150 residents at the site.
The abandoned sofa even has its own listing on TripAdvisor and a Facebook page titled Lydbrook Lounge with visitors posting photo graphs of themselves.
Alex said: “As an amateur documentary photographer, it has been a great opportunity to photograph the local community.
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