A bronze statue of the dancing Jolly Fisherman stands on the Tower Esplanade roundabout, and a second statue sits in Compass Gardens behind the seafront. He is the most famous fictional resident of the town and one of the most enduring tourism mascots in Britain — a stout, red-cheeked man in oilskins skipping along the beach.
The poster he comes from has been reissued, parodied, and printed on tea towels for over a century. Today the original watercolour is in the Town Hall. The two statues are an easy walk apart and make a deliberate stop on a slow stroll around the seafront. You will see the Jolly Fisherman repeatedly on benches, signs, and bins around town — the council took the trouble to copyright him in the 1990s.