Painted in 2024 by Neil Wilkinson-Cave, Sacredart Murals.
Commissioned by Brixham Future.

Union Lane is a steep ramp  that was once part of an escarpment that ran along Fore Street. Below this escarpment, in what is now the main town car park, was an estuary, where the sea reached a point up to where the Town Hall is now built and there used to be a freshwater reservoir, supplied by the two streams running down Bolton Street and New Road.

The mural is painted on one of the largest wall elevations in town, located in this historic spot where sailors would have come ashore to collect water and provisions for their ships, moored out at sea sheltering below the Napoleonic forts at  Berry Head.

The use of the estuary during the Napoleonic wars is commemorated by this large mural of Lord Horatio Nelson and his fleet, which achieved a historic victory at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Nelson was garrisoned in Brixham in 1801. His image is taken from an earlier painting without him wearing his eye patch.

This is the largest mural in Brixham and took the artist 18 days to complete.