Portrayals of bears, most of them not quite life sized. The gaudily coloured street decorations are from Berlin. The paler carved bears are arranged all round the courtyard of Lord Leycester’s Hospital in Warwick. The darker and actually life-sized one climbing a pole supplements the inn sign of the Bear in Berkswell. A young bear and its owner form the centrepiece of one of the misericords of the Priory church at Great Malvern.