page_title: Ben Boucher
section_title: Commemoration
hierarchical_section_title: Ben Boucher / Commemoration
caption_attribution_description: English: bronze statue created by John McKenna sculptor designed by Steve Field Dudley Borough public artist, commissioned by Dudley MBC for Dudley Town centre, 2015
context_page_description: Ben Boucher was an English poet who described life in Dudley in the Black Country during the nineteenth century.
context_section_description: An oil painting of Boucher was made during his lifetime, reportedly at the Miners Arms public house. A photograph of the portrait was reproduced in the book The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country by C.F.G. Clarke published in 1881.
  As part of the refurbishment of Dudley Market, a bronze statue of Ben Boucher, designed by artist Steve Field and sculpted by John McKenna, was placed on one of a pair of specially-built benches near the fountain at one end of the marketplace in 2015. The benches, constructed using Portland stone, are inscribed with Boucher's "Lines On Dudley Market".
caption: This Bronze statue of Ben Boucher sculpted by John McKenna from a design of Steve Field, Dudley Borough public artist, was commissioned by Dudley MBC for Dudley Town centre, 2015
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