Students create new statue of fishing town founder
The metal sculpture of of Grim saving Prince Havelock has been produced by students at the Grimsby Institute.
It stands outside the campus on the site of a previous artwork of the pair, which was removed in 2006 after repeated vandalism.
That 50-year-old stone statue has been restored and moved to the town's Freeman Street Market.
The new "21st Century Grim" was designed by three art students and built in the Institute's fabrication and welding departments before being painted in the body shop.
Ann Hardy chief executive of the college's TEC Partnership, said it had been a "really collective journey for this statue".
"People of Grimsby are really proud of their heritage and quite rightly so," she said.
"It's a fantastic story, so this statue represents pride."
The ancient tale tells of a fisherman called Grim rescuing Havelock, a Danish prince, from a stormy sea off the Lincolnshire coast, before going on to found the town that bears his name.
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