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I've will have walked numerous times past the building where this is but I've never noticed this figure until today. The 'appendage' does not look like it is part of the original figure and I think it must have been added at some time as a joke! There is a similar figure nearby on the building, but that does not seem to have the 'appendage'.

Headrow maybe ?

Yes, it's on what was the Guildford pub. And I believe it has always been a, ahem, part of that figure.

Yes i couldnt remeber the name

Geordie-exile wrote: Yes, it's on what was the Guildford pub. And I believe it has always been a, ahem, part of that figure. Yes it is that building, which is now called the Northern Monkey. This photo shows the figure next to the Green Dragon Yard on the left.

This is a full frontal view of the Northern Monkey on The Headrow, showing the same figure on the right (probably without the appendage which if it ever was there seems to have been removed or fallen off at some stage!).

Although the two figures on either end of the pub are identical, one is a little bit better off in the Crown jewels department Take a look at the right hand side figure and you can see he's not as lucky as the one on the left.http://g.co/maps/5h6rzApparently at one time neither figure was particularly well endowed. Sometime during renovation of the pub an extra piece was added, although the cheeky culprit remains a mystery to this day     

If apprehended what charge could result?Going equipped mayhap, 'Tooled up', perchance?

Phill_dvsn wrote: Although the two figures on either end of the pub are identical, one is a little bit better off in the Crown jewels department Take a look at the right hand side figure and you can see he's not as lucky as the one on the left.http://g.co/maps/5h6rzApparently at one time neither figure was particularly well endowed. Sometime during renovation of the pub an extra piece was added, although the cheeky culprit remains a mystery to this day      Cheers Phill. I've just found this photo in Leodis (use the link). Compared to the photo above that I took today of the view of the Northern Monkey there has been no significant change to the outside of the building other than the fancy work along the roof edge is no longer there. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... Y=FULLEdit added shortly after posting. There has been more noticeable change than I realised. The door to the right in the 1949 image seems no longer to be there and there is now an entry to the cellar that does not seem to be in the 1949 photo.

The opposite occurred with the Jacob Epstein sculpture of an angel on Oscar Wilde's grave in Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Apparently visitors to the cemetery were offended, so a certain bit was removed - legend had it that the "offending part" served as a paperweight in the caretaker's office for many years