AAAArgh!

I did some detailed research on this just now in Google, and presented it complete with links to various sites, then Mudcat crashed as I was previewing it and I lost the lot! (I know, I used to save long posts in case, but haven't needed to recently.)

Anyway, I have spent pleasant evenings in the Pig on the Wall pub in Droylsden, east of Manchester, where I was told it was to commemoraate a local farmer (pub had been a pig farm?) who put his pig on the wall to see the parade go past.

From Google it appears that this may well be an urban legend- or a rural/village legend- "the next village are so daft they put their pigs on the wall to watch the parade pass" sort of thing. It's a local legend in Dudley, Swindon and the Kippax area of Leeds where there is a mural of said pig on a cottage wall.

Also photographs of pig on wall watching Captain Webb's triumphant procession when he returned from swimming the Channel in 1875.
:0)

So, is there more to this than a story, I wonder?