Someone from the NT in Jersey has expressed concern about the number of memorial benches found at many beauty spots and suggests the number could be limited by only allowing them to be there for a given number of years.
I can only whole-heartedly support this measure. About 5 years ago we went to Whitby, staying in a hotel on the headland opposite the ruined abbey. The view from the headland to the abbey is superb. There was a broad sweep of grass around the headland in front of the hotel and as DH and I wandered along it I counted 67 memorial benches before I freaked out and insisted we went back to the road, crossed it and walked on the pavement as far from the benches as possible. I counted 67, but there were a lot more.
All the benches were so close together, to walk on the headland meant threading between the benches each with their little brass plaque saying that John, or Iris or Fred or Violet who died.... loved this view.
It is left me with a horror of these benches. I can just cope with them, if the bench is where a bench would be anyway, in an alcove in a garden for example, one or two at a popular beauty spot, but anything much more and I start shuddering.
I can see the point of benches, but not the need to mark them with brass plaques. The chances that anyone seeing the plaque to Mildred, or Reg or Joy, will know who they are, are remote and anyone else seeing them, especially in profusion won't care.
When DFdied we made a donation to a new quiet garden at the hospital. We chose a table and when asked whether we wanted a plaque on it DS and I were emphatic that we didn.t - and that was before my stay at Whitby.
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