return Little Harrowden bench!
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No pub, no post office, no shop, what next, to posh for a wmc?
The church of course ... that will be next, not symbolic of the modern day UK.
Oh well, Onward Christian soldiers. Good luck with your crusade for The Bench, remember it well.
Is the telephone box still there ?
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The telephone box is still here at the moment!! For how long for....who knows!
Amazing how objects can be removed for other people's benefits!!! The bench was there before the new houses, didn't these people see it when they viewed there potential new property!! An utter disgrace in this day and age aren't we meant to bring communities together??!!! Hang your heads in shame Little Harrowden parish council and ask yourselves are in your positions for the good of the village or your own greedy needs.
Me and my brother and sisters were all born and bought up in the village x the bench was our meeting place our place to grow our place to be with our mates our place that our parents knew where we would be . The bench was put there by a loving family of a very kind lovely gentleman who was a big part of the community the bought that in his memory and was put there by the parish council at the time because they clearly knew it was the right place for it to be x my father now in his 80s still walks albeit not very well but walked to the bench and used it as his stop off point to get his breath and to see people he wouldn't normally be seeing so removing the bench you have taken that away from him , try asking him what his thoughts are try asking any original harrowden people what they think , DO NOT just listen to the complaints from people who have just moved there the bench has been there a lot longer than they have ,
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i for one will be using the flower bed as a bench until its re-enstatement..+ the only complaints were from one of the councillors...i hope councillors living nearby declared an interest and didn't vote on the matter...i wonder if the clerk wrote it down correctly in the notes!!!!!
It's insensitive of the PCC to remove a memorial bench that is dedicated to a well respected local citizen.
Old man sitting on the plant pot!
absolute disgrace that the heart of our community for generations has been removed and disguarded like it nothing! That has been there my whole life I grew up in this village, that bench was our friends meeting place when out for walks. Also I have personally seen a man resting sitting on your plant pot!!!!! Maybe think about what the people want and need is an idea.
park bench
disgusting who do these people think they are needs to be put right and that means putting back the bench and apoliges to all the people they have up set !!!!
What? The bench was a fundamental part of village life! No-one from little Harrowden would ever have agreed to it's removal surely?
Many happy memories associated with that bench, it was a part of our childhood for so many villagers.
Although I have been priced out of buying a house there, I still feel that little Harrowden is my true home. I'm gutted that this last meeting point in the village has now been removed.
Every time I come back to visit family, another part of the village's character seems to have been removed. It appears to be a symptom of the changing priorities of people moving into the village. London commuters with no ties to the village don't use the shops or pubs and don't need local bus services, but they do care about house prices. I sincerely hope that this apparent "gentrification" of the village green has not been done to serve those for whom house prices are of greater concern than community.
Little Harrowden was not a great place to grow up because it looked pretty or because everyone was propery rich. It was a great place to grow up because of the community, a great deal of which centred around that bench...
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