Andy Capp Statue, Hartlepool

Andy Capp leans on a post with his pint and his flat cap pulled low on Croft Terrace, on Hartlepool's Headland, photographed in 2012. His creator Reg Smythe was born and died in Hartlepool, and Smythe's widow Jean unveiled the bronze in 2007. Shropshire sculptor Jane Robbins caught the newspaper strip's idler in his natural slouch but left out his ever-present cigarette, a change that says a lot about how the strip's world has aged.