JAZZMAN George Melly was one of many mourners who turned up to give artist Anthony Earnshaw a fine send-off at his funeral.
Mr Earnshaw died last month, aged 76. At his funeral in Saltburn last week mourners, including Mr Melly, lined up to scribble farewell messages and poems on his cardboard coffin in the town's Britannia pub.
Mr Earnshaw was born in West Yorkshire but moved to Saltburn when he retired in 1985. He had worked as an art teacher and discovered surrealist art in his 20s.
Harlem Blues was played as the coffin was lowered into the ground at Saltburn Cemetery, watched by his widow Gail, an art teacher, whom he married 33 years ago.
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