The rat (main picture) is from a statue on a bridge in Berlin portraying St Gertrude, a seventh century nun whose powers include the ability to disperse plagues of rodents. She is also a patron saint of cat lovers, cat owners and their cats, gardeners, herbalists, farmlands, good lodgings, travellers, pilgrims, recently dead people, graves, poor people, widows and Nivelles, Belgium, where her nunnery was. The statue has rats and mice around the base, all polished as they are regularly fingered for luck by pedestrians passing that way.
Weathervanes
The cow (two pictures from different angles) is a Simmental bull, spotted in the Hinksford Mobile Home Park, seen from the canal towpath.
The elephant is just opposite the High Town terminus of the Bridgnorth Cliff Railway. The horse vane, and the sheep and lamb / pig and piglet fixtures are on houses near either end of the farm track which is a westward continuation of Castlecroft Road.
Doorknockers
Lions heads are common among doorknockers. These two were variations on the more usual patterns. The ram’s head came from Ludlow, and the bear from Warwick.
The mole – a cutout from a now lichen-covered metal – is from the elaborate gate of the former Wolverhampton Environmental Centre. It gives access to land the Council is currently proposing to sell for housing development.