– An enormous mechanical bull that turned heads on the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Video games within the English metropolis of Birmingham will keep on present after a marketing campaign in opposition to it being dismantled, town council introduced on Friday.
A petition to save lots of the 10-metre tall construction attracted practically 10,000 signatures and it'll now adorn Birmingham’s Centenary Sq. till the tip of September for public viewing earlier than being moved indoors.
“We're delighted with the response the Bull has had from the Opening Ceremony which displays our historical past,” mentioned Ian Ward, chief of Birmingham Metropolis Council.
The art work was pulled onto stage on the metropolis’s Alexander Stadium by 50 ladies representing feminine chain-makers in the course of the Industrial Revolution who made chains used within the slave commerce.
The town’s affiliation with the bull stems from the Bull Ring, a market space of Birmingham within the Center Ages onwards the place bulls have been as soon as held earlier than slaughter. The town’s greatest procuring centre is the Bullring.
Product of largely aluminium, it took 5 months and greater than 50 individuals to construct the bull, which has develop into a significant vacationer attraction for the reason that Video games started.
“The varied historical past of Birmingham is likely one of the causes we have been profitable in our bid for the 2022 Commonwealth Video games and the way in which residents and guests have embraced the Bull reveals how vital that is,” added Ward.
The Video games shut on Monday.
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