When a Leeds school unveiled a giant mosaic of the Nativity

Students at John Bosco School on Tongue Lane in Meanwood designed and made this giant mosaic from coloured pieces of paper cut from magazines and foil from cigarette packets.

They worked after school and at break times to complete the mosaic, pictured in December 1969 and measuring 24ft by 12ft, which only cost £8 to complete.

On the scaffold are three of the pupils who helped with the work. From top to bottom are Tony Murray, John South and Tony Summers

The mosaic was designed by Andrew Brown and Philip Woffindon, two fifth-formers. Andrew had gone on to study at Jacob Kramer College of Art in Leeds.

Behind the project was art teacher Andrea Carr who had since married and was living in Staffordshire.

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