Photographers snapped fancy dress, wildlife and even landmarks for this week’s ‘borrowed’ Camera Club theme.

One winner stood out this week and that was Gordon Craig’s picture of a giant sculpture in Scarborough.

Mr Craig explained that the sculpture was originally borrowed by the people of Scarborough for four weeks and now the giant sculpture of Freddie Gilroy sits on the North Bay seafront.

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Mr Craig told the tale behind the sculpture by Ray Lonsdale, he said: “Freddie was a working-class guy from a mining community who fought in WW2. He was one of the first to liberate Bergen Belsen just before his 24th Birthday.

“They found 60,000 starving prisoners and thousands of corpses. Sadly, as many as 13,000 were so ill they also died.

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“The survivors became known as the Belsen Stragglers.

“The monument is both a homage to the victims of the holocaust and an acknowledgment of the incredible journey of young working-class men faced with unthinkable horror.

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“A local resident used her life savings to buy the sculpture, in memory of her husband and donated it to the people of Scarborough.”

To celebrate the Jubilee Next week’s Camera Club competition theme is ‘party’, so get ready to take pictures of all the events happening across Oxfordshire.

To enter post your pictures to the Oxford Mail Camera Club Facebook page and if you are lucky your snap will feature in the paper.

Happy snapping!

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This story was written by Rebecca Whittaker, she joined the team in 2019 as a multimedia reporter.

Rebecca covers education and news in Abingdon and Wantage.

Get in touch with her by emailing: Rebecca.Whittaker@newquest.co.uk or calling 07824524333

Follow her on Twitter @RebecWhitt

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