Plans submitted for mammoth mural on Sheringham seafront

Plans have been submitted for a brand new mural in Sheringham, despicting the woolly mammoths which roamed Norfolk hundreds of thousands of years ago.

The 30 metre long structure would be built onto the sea wall at the bottom of Beach Road.

It would be made of recycled scaffolding boards which would be cut to size and painted, before being assembled into the final artwork.

The project is being put together by Sheringham Community Art Project, which aims to brighten up public spaces in the town.

Also planned as part of the mural are life-sized mammoth footprints, painted onto nearby footpaths along with the prints of other animals that would have lived at the time.

Steppe mammoths would have lived in what is now Norfolk between 900,000 and 500,000 years ago.

The remains of one of the animals, now known at the West Runton Mammoth, were pulled from the cliffs of the Norfolk coast in the 1990s.

North Norfolk Council will now make a decision on whether to give the go ahead for the mural to be built.

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