This bronze statue Embracing the Sea by Jon Buck, created in 1998, sits by the entrance to the pier in the Kent coastal town of Deal, a three-metre tall monument to the town’s boatbuilding and fishing history.
Now dubbed Shoreditch-on-Sea by some, probably because of the numbers of creative types who are moving here to buy the pretty fishermen’s cottages in the town’s side streets, in the 17th century Deal was edgy in a different sense, being notorious for smugglers.