Since then, Elton-Wall has staged more photoshoots and taken pictures of more than 170 locals with the sofa and even a few animals, including a tortoise, a chicken and a horse. His photoshoots have made the sofa a surprise tourist attraction, rising up the Tripadvisor rankings to become the second-best thing to do in Lydbrook (pipped only by an alpaca farm).
Colin Aylward, a local resident, expressed frustrations over ongoing fly-tipping incidents, saying, 'Both the council and the police don't want to know...people are always dumping stuff here all the time.'