Final piece in the jigsaw: Tony Smith puts the final touches to the Pumpkin mural designed for this year's annual Pumpkin festival in the tiny village of Slindon near Arundell in West Sussex. It depicts a wheelbarrow with eagles flying overheadForget getting away with carving the odd pumpkin for a seasonal display, this stunning effort used up 600 of the fruit and 100 different varieties.
Made from pumpkins, squashes and gourds, the mural was created - for the 43rd straight year - by Robin Upton and ten helpers.
The display attracts tourists from far and wide to the village of Slindon, near Arundel in West Sussex, and this year the stacked fruit shows a wheel barrow, a basket of fruit and buzzards in the sky.
Final piece in the jigsaw: Tony Smith puts the final touches to the Pumpkin mural designed for this year's annual Pumpkin festival in the tiny village of Slindon near Arundell in West Sussex. It depicts a wheelbarrow with eagles flying overheadThe display used to be stacked against a shed next to the family's small-holding, but that collapsed a few years ago and now scaffolding is used.
It took Robin and helpers ten days to put the 12ft by 20ft picture together.
The tradition began in 1968 when Robin's late father Ralph placed the fruit on his shed to ripen off.
It became an attraction and the displays got larger and more complicated and each year expectation grows.
This is the 43rd year the attraction has been done. This image of a traction engine is a previous creationRobin, 65, said: 'It all began when my father put the pumpkins on the roof to ripen off and it used to bring people in to buy them.
'Over the years it got bigger and bigger and a few years ago shed that we used collapsed so now we put up scaffolding.
'We've used about 600 fruit and 100 varieties. We grow some and bring others in.
'People love it and it is as popular as ever. It normally stays until the middle of November, but it depends on the weather.'
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