This sculpture was sited temporarily in Roman Road in 1959, and on its present and intended site by May 1963. A figure of a man and a dog, on high and stepped concrete plinth. Two elongated and very rigid figures, the man with outstretched arm being hesitantly led by the very geometrically expressed dog. The group is one of Frink's earliest commissions and achieves considerable emotional pathos. The inspiration of the work was taken from the legend of the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, Henry de Montfort, who was wounded and left blind at the battle of Evesham in the wars with France in 1215, rescued by his wife and destined to spend the next 40 years begging around Bethnal Green. Legend has it that his beautiful daughter, Bessy, was courted by a number of suitors, all of whom save one abandoned their suit when her apparently humble origins become known.