One person’s junk is another’s art installation.
That seems to be the message from a display of unwanted household objects on a wall in Lossiemouth which has proved an unlikely tourist attraction.
For nearly a year, Charley Whyte, 76, has been attaching items, with no apparent connection, to a stone wall on the old railway line near the east beach.
Many visitors to the north east town now pose in front of the display on Macduff Street and take the chance to get pictures of the wall.
Mr Whyte said: “It just started with a chair in the corner. When I used to go out for a walk at night, I would always stop there for a fag – because it’s half way back to my house.
“I put up a sign saying ‘half y’ and it just came to me that I could brighten the place up a bit with some colour.”
Mr Whyte’s chair is now decorated with flowers, toy animals and a union jack that flutters in the sea breeze.
The unorthodox assortment of items that stretches along the path include pots, toilet seats, dolls and tributes to the Broons and Oor Wullie that have been placed neatly on the ground.
Cycling helmets, musical instruments and gardening tools have been attached to the wall to add to the eclectic mix.
And rulers bearing the name of Lossiemouth Football Club add a local touch.
Mr Whyte added: “Quite a lot of folk have given me odds and ends to add to it. As long as they are colourful, then I don’t mind.
“It’s amazing the amount of people, complete strangers, who come up to me to ask if I can put it up on the wall.
“Some holidaymakers from England will take away pictures of it. They ask me if they can sit down in the chair and I just tell them ‘of course you can’.”
The display started with the chair in the corner in August. With more space left on the wall next to the quiet footpath, Mr Whyte intends to keep adding to it.
As he said: “It depends on what odds and ends I collect. All I want to do is improve the look of the place and brighten it up.”
