Race Director's Car with Riders Behind, High Street

Category

Library Item

Item no

37304

Title

Race director's car with riders behind, coming up the High Street at the start of the Edinburgh - Blyth stage of the Tour of Britain

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2015

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Sunday 6th September saw the Grand Depart of the Aviva Tour of Britain 2015 from Beaumaris on Anglesey. A week later, on Sunday 13th September the cycle race concluded on London's Regent Street St James. On Wednesday 9th September the Tour of Britain visited Edinburgh for the first time. The stage started in Holyrood Park and then passed many of the city's most famous sites before racing through East Lothian and the Scottish Borders and into Northumberland, finishing in Blyth.

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Race director's car with riders behind, High Street