A PANEL from a replica of the Bayeux Tapestry is returning to its home town this summer.

The work of art was created by Leek Embroidery Society under Elizabeth Wardle in the late-1800s in celebration of her husband, Thomas: a Victorian industrialist, philanthropist and patron of the arts. It follows the style of the historic record of the Norman invasion in 1066.

The reproduction will be on loan at Leek's Nicholson Institute gallery to mark the centenary of Wardle's death.

Leek Town Council is bringing it back to the town as part of its Wardle: The Man exhibition.

Thomas Wardle worked in Leek and Macclesfield, and developed dyeing and printing techniques that were fundamental to the designs of William Morris.