Artworks spruce up sea defences in Lancashire
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A 10 metre (33ft) aluminium beacon featuring the Sea Swallows from the book already stands at Cleveleys
Artwork and poetry from children's book The Sea Swallow is being installed in sea defences in Lancashire.
The new sea wall at Rossall will include huge concrete units depicting the mythical tale, Wyre council said.
The design will face the sea and be visible from the new promenade when it opens in November 2017.
It forms part of an art trail called The Mythic Coast which begins at Cleveleys with a memorial to the ships wrecked off the Fylde coast.
The concrete unit tells The Sea Swallow story of Singleton Thorpe, a village drowned off Cleveleys in the 16th Century
The council is replacing 2km (1.2 miles) of defences from Rossall Hospital to Rossall Point in a £63m coastal defence scheme.
Using "325,000 tonnes of rock armour" for the base of the defences and "precast concrete" from a special mould, the seawall designs will be erected at both the northern end at Rossall Point and the southern end at West Way.
The Sea Swallow, by Gareth Thompson and illustrated by Hannah Magee, is based on Singleton Thorpe, a village drowned off Cleveleys in the 16th Century, mixed with real life stories from the people of Wyre.
Councillor Roger Berry said this "lovely feature" would "bring a little of the Mythic Coast's magic to the new defences", which would provide much greater protection from the risk of flooding to about 7,500 properties in the coastal area.
A four metre (13ft) limestone Sea Ogre from the book is on the trail and weighs 12 tonnes