Mr Cook I presume

Way back in 1841, this gentleman took 570 Temperance campaigners on the train to a rally in Loughborough.
He charged the princely sum of 1/- (5 pence in new money) per person for their rail ticket and food for the journey.
This was the first privately chartered excursion train to be advertised to the general public, it was such a success he organised more trips and the rest as they say is history.
This statue of Thomas Cook is on the approach to Leicester railway station, the original station where it all started from is just around the corner in Campbell Street.