On 5 November, for one night only, a Rugby photographer, Peter Thornley, used Rugby's cement tower in an immense new art installation.
The photographer projected images of ten local people on the side of the tower for the art display. The result was a portrait gallery on an extraordinary scale.
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The dramatic Rugby cement tower projection
The Lawford Cement Works Tower in Rugby is one of the biggest industrial structures in England at 310 metres high and provided an unusual canvas for the photographer's work.
Pete Thornley started the project by advertising in local papers over a period of a few months. He asked people to send him photographs of themselves so he could select a group of local faces to light up the industrial sky-line.
He had a fantastic response to the advertisements and to publicity on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ WM and after wading through the pictures, he has selected ten models willing to be photographed and projected 70 foot high.
The amazing display used the same equipment that made the giant projection for the Golden Jubilee at Buckingham Palace.
Despite the controversy over Rugby Cement's plans to burn tyres, the artist insisted his artwork had nothing to do with the policies of the company.
The projections were shown on 5 November from 6pm to midnight and were visible all over the borough.
The images of the characters from Rugby that were captured in the photographs were also on display at Rugby's Art Gallery and Museum from 27 October to 6 November.
