A QUIRK of artistic taste has seen visitors to a Wickford shopping centre doing a double take.

Pedestrians and motorists passing by the Willows Centre in High Street, could be forgiven for thinking they'd spied a very still workman lingering above a scaffolding tower.

However the "man" is in fact a statue which has been fixed to the outside of the shopping centre building for the past four years.

The scaffolding, recently erected for work to be carried out at the centre, has certainly highlighted the presence of the statue.

Three other similar "people" can be seen in and around the building.