Pub gets picture of town's destroyed mosaic

A photograph of a demolished tile mural has been given to a Grimsby pub.

The 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee Mosaic stood in the town's Freshney Place shopping centre until it was destroyed last year as part of redevelopment work.

A campaign to save it failed after the council said the tiles were cracking during an attempt to remove them.

Now a framed picture of the artwork has been presented to the Jubilee Inn by the local civic society.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the picture was given to the Wybers Wood pub as it opened in 1977, the same year the mural was unveiled.

It was created by local artist John Frear and featured an image of the Queen and landmarks including the Grimsby Dock Tower.

The image was from a high resolution photograph taken before the mural was removed.

Alan Nicholson, chair of the Grimsby, Cleethorpes and District Civic Society, said: "It's a shame it wasn't retained as part of the modernisation of Freshney Place, but unfortunately, that was not to be."

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