Over the last couple of months more than 1,000 local children from thirty schools were invited to collect cans and help out with the sculpture by constructing their own small sections. The pupils also learnt about the importance of recycling and reducing consumption. All of the cans that formed the Chester sculpture will be recycled.

Hundreds of tin cans were collected by children across Chester but with more than 700 cans it was pupils of Dee Banks School in Sandy Lane, Chester which collected the most. They were closely followed by Capenhurst Primar, of Capenhurst Lane and Hoole All Saints Primary School of Hoole Lane, Hoole.

Pupils from Capenhurst, Newton Primary School of Newton and Thomas of Canterbury Primary School of Walpole Street visited the city centre sculpture site.

Stephen Wundke, chairman of the Chester Food & Drink Festival, said: “This has been a magnificent group effort by the people of Chester to achieve a world record, building on the success of last year’s bottle top mosaic and the toast mosaic the year before that. The tin can sculpture along with the cheese rolling have kick-started this year’s bigger and better Chester Food & Drink Festival. We have seen children from many schools across the city get involved in making parts of the sculpture and we hope they will be part of the revolution in food and drink in Chester for many years to come.”

Six thousand of the cans that made up the sculpture were donated by Ball Packaging Europe Ltd and last week pupils from Hoole All Saints Primary School, Hoole Lane, Hoole visited Ball Packaging Europe Ltd’s Wrexham factory to learn more about the process of making and recycling cans.

For more information about other events happening over the Chester Food & Drink Festival please visit www.chesterfoodanddrink.com