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The mural remembers Sam Lockhart's circus elephants, that bathed in the River Leam at the horse and elephant wash nearby; see SP3265 : The Elephant Wash, Leamington Spa. The mural is by Brink Contemporary Arts; see Warwickshire World Link. The story of the elephants, long forgotten, was revived by the local writer Janet Storrie in a children's book and they captured the town's imagination. The blogger Tish Farrell is more sceptical that elephants were washed here, noting the lack of surviving news reports, but acknowledges that they certainly lived in the town when not on tour Link.