Connect 2 at Watermead Park

Click on the thumbnails below to see larger pictures of how the work is going.

The 'Portrait Bench' as voted for by the Leicestershire public is constructed by the Leicestershire Highways team and officially opened by Cabinet Member Lesley Pendleton and children from Tangent House Day Nursery. The bench features an Aurochs (extinct wild ox) and two Bronze Age people, the remains of whom were found in Watermead Country Park.

Children from Church Hill and Eastfiedl Primary Schools cycle into Leicester along the Connect2 route for the Phoenix Bike Ride.

The GB Women's Volleyball team cycle over the bridge at Birstall Lock on their fundraising bike ride from Sheffield to London.

Children from Eastfield School in Thurmaston take part in a film being made by Sustrans about the Connect2 project. The photos were taken by the children themselves.