Two giant murals created as part of a town’s 800th anniversary celebrations have had a positive impact, the art festival’s organisers said.
They are the first of a total of eight large-scale works on blank walls on locations around North Shields, in North Tyneside, over the summer.
Organised by Elevation, they are part of a festival marking its history from a small village of simple huts – or shiels – into a thriving harbour town.
The completed two have sparked hundreds of likes on social media with comments being “overwhelmingly positive”.