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Competition time?
Shirley Way
Croydon
Dear Editor,
I am minded to invite the Society's Executive
Committee to run a competition. The objective would be to point
out the absurdity of the situation on many of our roads in the
context of street furniture. Just how much clutter do we have
to put up with on ordinary roads, let alone those in the town
centre?
The competition would be by way of an invitation
to members - and others - to submit photographs of locations
in Croydon. Photographers would have to be warned to take care
not to endanger lives (specifically, their own) in taking these
photographs, despite the temptataion to go just that little
bit further in the interests of the shot. Winning is not
all ...
And the winner would be the one submitting
the photograph with the most street posts or poles in it. Lamp-posts,
bus stops, street signs, pedestrian signs, bollards, cycle racks,
all would count; pillar boxes would not, though free-standing
posts with mail-delivery pouch boxes would. Posts on private
land would be excluded.
Former Vice-Chairman Beverley Sale has already
shown us a slide with something approaching a dozen - and that
was at the end of his road, if memory serves ... I feel sure
that more enterprising people could get a total of at least double
that; we may have to limit the count to those within,
say, thirty or fifty yards of the camera, otherwise some smart
alec would take an aerial shot of the town and say "beat
that!".
I said I was minded to seek the launch
of this competition; but since there were no takers for sponsoring,
in the context of the Mini-Gardens Competition, the Wooden Weed
Award for the worst surroundings/frontage of a building in the
town centre, I am reluctant to set in train an idea which will
come to naught. Anyway, the west side of Dingwall Road (southern
half) would win hands down, so no contest there ... and probably
no contest for posts if someone stood outside St George's House
and snapped from there. Or would there be ...?
Andy Bebington
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