SEASIDE scenes made from yarn have been delighting people after they appeared on postboxes around Leigh and Westcliff.

Members of the Benfleet-based Craft Club have left “yarnbombs” – colourful crocheted scenes – on top of four postboxs.

The colourful covers have amused families and commuters alike, as two are outside rail stations.

A figure with a blue hat and blue dress, the bottom of which spreads out like the tentacles of an octopus, appears on a sea bed at the corner of Leigh Broadway and Ashleigh Drive.

A pirate with knitted treasure chest, a parrot and a spade is marooned on bright yellow sand outside Chalkwell station.

A smiling whale and small fish are riding crocheted blue waves at the corner of Leigh Road and Mount Avenue, in Westcliff, and a mermaid reclines on a woollen rock outside Leigh station.

The club is made up of five staff from the Appleton School, Benfleet. They crocheted their first yarnbomb in winter 2013-14 for a postbox outside Essex Countryside, in Leigh Broadway. They then made a seaside-themed yarnbomb, with seagulls and rock, for Chalkwell station for Southend Arts Festival last summer.

The club smashed the world record for the number of crocheted items displayed together, raising cash for Havens Hospices last summer, and organised a swap of crocheted snowmen to raise awareness of World Aids Day at the start of December.