SETTLE Flowerpot Festival has got underway in the town with residents getting into the spirit of the occasion once again.

Dozens of magnificently crafted animals, science fiction figures and children’s characters, to name a few, are adorning the streets, gardens and alleyways with more being added daily as the festival gets underway.

The characters are dotted around all over the town and it is a perfect excuse to take the children and go and seek out hidden corners of the market town.

Brendon Walsh, and his wife, Jenny, who created the Paw Patrol flowerpot character, said the festival had only just started but there were already lots placed around town for people to see.

“It runs for a couple of months and they get added to all the time so there is a lot more to come,” he said.

There is no knowing what you will see when you turn a corner. For example, there is an elephant and her baby standing under the tree outside the old police station and a shepherd and flock of sheep in the graveyard of Settle Parish Church.

Around the back of Constitution Hill Snow White has just found her missing seven dwarfs and a scary blue crayfish lurks in a water trough off Castle Hill.

The Co-op filling station is undergoing some work but one of the construction workers, Bert, sits, mug in hand, by the roadside, while a dinosaur guards the Naked Man Cafe.

By the middle of July the organisers will be producing flowerpot trails for people to buy and follow.

The works of art will be on display until after the Annual Settle Folk Gathering, which takes place from September 5 to 8.