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ANDY CAPP

Andy Capp in January 2022 with a tribute scarf to our marvellous Royal National Lifeboat Institution and credit to the Heugh Yarners for the wonderful work they do across old Hartlepool. There's another image in the right hand column showing it a little bit closer.

Thank you NHS from Andy Capp during mid March, 2021. Click on the image to see it larger.

Nothing to do with Reg Smythe but very impressive just the same. A wonderful colourful mural, painted on the Pilot's Pier in old Hartlepool, by Durham Spray Paints. Click on the image to see it larger.

Andy Capp suitably dressed for Armistice Day, November 2018 with a poppy and a nice knitted scarf on show.

Someone must have thought it was rather chilly round the seafront so they decided to wrap Andy up in a couple of scarves - and colourful they are, too!

A very popular tourist attraction is the Andy Capp statue. It is situated next to the Pot House public house in Croft Terrace, Hartlepool, and looks out towards the Pilot's Pier and Hartlepool Bay.

Beer in hand and the summer flowers are in bloom.

At the base of the statue there's a plaque which reads "Andy Capp Created by Reg Smythe." You can see a full size photograph of the plaque by clicking on the image in the right hand column.

Andy with a backdrop of flowers overlooks the bay in Hartlepool - and how nice it was to have this photograph requested to be used in the magazine "Locally Yours" in March 2013. You can see it in the right hand column.

I once saw, on another website, that someone had taken a photograph of the Andy Capp statue from behind. So thanks to that person for giving me the idea to do the same. Here, Andy overlooks the Town Wall, the Pilot's Pier Lighthouse and Hartlepool Bay. Across the bay is old Middleton and the Marina. In the distance, on the right, you can just see the floodlight pylons at Hartlepool Football Club's Victoria Park and the masts of HMS Trincomalee.

I bet the gentleman just coming up the steps didn't expect to be on this photograph or, indeed, on my website. I will try to find out who he is and give him a copy of the photograph.

Someone commented about Andy not having his usual cigarette in his mouth. Mrs Smythe said that Reg had stopped smoking and, therefore, had decided to make Andy a non smoker!

This page is dedicated to Reg Smythe July 10, 1917 – June 13, 1998.

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