May
2008
LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
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opinion, are offensive, aggressive or include gratuitous
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Press, its publisher.
Remembering Godyll
Dear Editor,
Now that Southwold Town Council have determined
that the memorial to our benefactor, William Godyll, should
be reconsidered and are open to further suggestions, would
this be an appropriate time to revisit my original proposal
for a suitable memorial to the great man.
Our perennial problem is, of course, parking,
or more particularly, lack of the same and my proposal
for the erection on the Godyll Road car park of the “William
Godyll Memorial Multi-Storey Car Park and Pole Dancing
Club” would provide the several much needed benefits
to the Town; an increase in parking availability, somewhere
for our younger people to either work and/or enjoy themselves,
and with the added benefit of obscuring the unsightly
profile of the swimming pool now being constructed in
Mill Lane.
Graham Hay Davison
Do you want to get involved?
Dear Editor,
My name is Harmony Blake and I'm the Event Co-ordinator
for the Latitude Festival, based at Henham Park. I'm trying
to organise some 'Friends of Latitude' from local community
groups or sports clubs etc to work at the Latitude Festival.
The idea is that, for example, a local cricket club might
provide ten members of staff who work in a particular
role on site, such as manning one of the vehicle gates.
We pay the going rate and this amount is then donated
to their club as a fund-raising exercise. This has worked
very well for all concerned at some other festivals and
I am very keen to set something up like this for the Latitude
Festival. There are a number of roles on site that might
be suitable and I’m hoping to get together quite
a few different groups.
If you want to get involved or know of
a group that might be interested, please could you contact
me at Festival Republic, c/o The Old Stables, Henham Park,
Beccles NR34 8AN, Tel: 01502 578791 (Fax as Tel –
please call before faxing), Mobile: 07961 027663, E-mail:
hblake@festivalrepublic.com.
Harmony Blake
‘If the coast is to be defended,
it should be done properly’
Dear Editor,
After reading the interview with Marcus Gladwell in last
month’s Organ, I would point out that the work on
Easton beach was stopped not by an inundation of bureaucracy,
but because vast quantities of spoil, including scrap
metal and plastics, were being dumped on our beautiful
beach without planning permission. Contractors usually
pay to dump each load of spoil (there were many thousands
of lorry loads). If money changed hands in this instance,
it would be nice to see some of it used to clear away
all the rusty metal and vehicle parts which currently
mar what was previously a lovely stretch of coast. Rusty
metal on the beach is particularly awful because it gets
buried by sand and emerges again later, and is gradually
moving onto our town beaches with the action of the tides.
If the coast is to be defended, it should be done properly,
with planning consent and suitable materials.
Paul Wilkinson
An appreciative customer
Dear Editor,
Little Joe’s is growing up. Congratulations and
thanks to Matthew and his team for giving us such a marvellous
shop at this end of the town. It may not be the largest
shop in Southwold, but it is certainly one of the best.
‘The Ancient One’, Southwold
