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AN HISTORIC shelter in Scarborough’s South Cliff has been given a new lease of life following a restoration project.
The English oak shelter in Shuttleworth Gardens, off the Esplanade, has been fully restored thanks to the involvement of Scarborough Civic Society and a number of other supporters.
Around 60 people attended the official opening ceremony yesterday to celebrate the culmination of months of fundraising and hard work.
Civic society chairman Adrian Perry said: “It has been a great success. It’s another milestone for the Civic Society as we’ve managed to preserve another part of Scarborough’s history.
“We’ve had lot of support - the first donor who gave us the confidence to carry on was Yorkshire Gardens Trust.
“We’ve been lucky enough to get substantial funding, around £5,000, from outside sources and the rest will be paid by the Civic Society.”
Shuttleworth Gardens were presented to the town by local businessman Alfred Shuttleworth in 1917. The oak shelter was already in the garden at that time so it is around 100 years old.
In recent years it had become dilapidated and has now been fully restored using 10-year seasoned English Oak.
The work was carried out by Scarborough firm Andy Whitelaw Joinery and donors were Yorkshire Gardens Trust, Scarborough Council, North Yorkshire County Council, The Greenway Family in memory of Richard Greenway, Jack Brunton Charitable Trust, Civic Society members, Connie Pummell and Bonnie Purchon MBE (who both hosted fundraising events) and the Borough of Scarborough Mayoress’ Community Fund.
The society would also like to give a special thank you to council officer Alan Dargue.
Mr Perry said: “The finished result is very good indeed. At the moment you can tell which is the old wood and which is the new, but within a year or two the new oak will blend in and become the same colour as the rest of the shelter.
“It will be well used - it’s in a lovely, quiet spot and is a real sun trap.”
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TSnf
Friday, May 20, 2011 at 05:41 PM#9 That reminds me of a sketch on Not the Nine o'clock News a few years ago!!!
guesticulate
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 06:08 PMAn excellent alternative would be to remove their reproductive organs. Scum breeds Scum in large numbers in order to get benefits for booze, fags and drugs. If we could simply remove their bits and pieces it would mean that scum would be illiminated within perhaps 20 years. Off with their genitals!
TSnf
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 05:51 PMI can go along with that to some extent, although I would birch vandals for a first offence, (I don't think they'd come back for more!) If they did, well, tough!!!
guesticulate
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 05:46 PMIt appears that my words have been misunderstood. I was not suggesting that we wipe out a whole generation but just the scum contained therein. The "new " rubbish seems to become more and more extreme from generation to generation. We now need a tough leader who will say enough is enough and stop the rot. Lethal injections would in my view be a good deterrent to vandals as dead people cannot continue commiting crime.
TSnf
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 05:28 PM#3 - OMG!! Whilst I totally am all for corporal and capital punishment (where applicable, esp for paedos, terrorists and other murderers) and strict discipline, even I would baulk at the wiping out of an entire generation for the crimes of a tiny minority of that generation. Can I assume from your comments that you are not a parent, but if you are, would you want your son or daughter to be included in the "wipeout"?
UT
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 08:01 PMI personally think that its an excellent restoration job, and looks impressive enough to get the respect it deserves and it seems well constructed to be able to withstand most ware and tear that it will need to.
UT
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 07:50 PMRe Guesticulate, yes i imagine a lot of locals would aree that vandals may target the renovated shelter, but that seems the way of the modern world in any walk of life, the well off like to see the poorer stay that way etc im sure I dont need to lecture on the point, but the thoughts on punishment and wiping out a generation or a form of genicide as you might say is stupid as there may be afew bad apples but as a generation they need a previous generationand so on to produce each generation in turn. So who's parents are you? and where abouts in your family tree do we start to prevent the present generation, maybe with the most ignorant, yourself perhaps!!!
guesticulate
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 05:39 PMIt will deffo be a target. The scum know that it will annoy and perplex proper people if they damage or destroy it. It is their aim to annoy proper right thinking people. That is whas scum do unfortunately. They will continue to do it until someone is tough enough to bring in some real deterrents. I would suggest lethal injections. Lets just wipe out a whole generation of scum and start afresh. They are no good for anything anyhow.
TSnf
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 02:52 PMAgree entirely - too often lots of time, effort and money is ploughed into nprojects like this, only to be smashed up by feral trash. I hope that they can leave the shelter alone for anyone to enjoy, but I won't hold my breath!
amaroo
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 10:35 AMA great job, one has to hope that the feral youth leave it well alone. Sadly in this day and age when one reports on good things like this and especially smallish restorations it is a signal for the feral scum to come out from under their stones and immediately target and destroy.
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