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‘Harry would approve’: rail firm protects Cheshire viaduct turned Styles shrine

Fence and message boards put up at Twemlow viaduct, where One Direction singer is said to have had his first kiss

The rail firm has now fenced off part of the 23-arch structure and erected a specially constructed wall with black boards for fans to inscribe their names, with the aim of preventing further damage. The two friends had made the 4,500-mile trip to the UK for Trey’s 20th birthday and were making a flying visit to Holmes Chapel before travelling to London to see a concert by Niall Horan, Styles’s former bandmate, the next week. Peter Whiers, chair of the Holmes Chapel Partnership, which launched the guided tours in June, said concerts by Horan and Taylor Swift – Styles’s former girlfriend – had brought legions more Harries to the once-sleepy village.

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