Love Your Sunderland: Amazing knitted Halloween scene on Sunderland pillar box

The spooky creation has been meticulously placed over the pillar box at Chester Road Post Office by "yarn bombers".

It shows ghosts, jack-o'-lanterns, creepy spiders and an unusually relaxed looking witch (but don't be deceived) working at her cauldron.

The Echo understands the knitted scene is the work of knitters at West Community Centre next door to the post office, but is yet to confirm this.

The brilliant knitwork has made the pillar box a tourist attraction a little tourist attraction. Previous displays there have marked Christmas, Easter, Remembrance Day and D-Day.

The latest creation has appeared as we run our #LOVEYOUR campaign, launched to coincide with the annual ‘Journalism Matters’ weekend and in the run-up to the festive season, will be a love letter to our community as we focus on everything from amazing pubs to top notch chippies, from the most beautiful walks to family favourite attractions that make Sunderland - and the wider North East - such a fantastic place to live.

The campaign is being run by the Echo and its sister-titles as part of a wider drive by our parent company National World.