As we’ve mentioned Watchmoor Reserve quite recently, we’re showing a couple more photos…
The first photo was taken about twenty years ago. It shows the wooden ploughmen, plough and horse as they were then. (The photo was taken using a 35mm camera – too expensive to take lots of pictures!)
The second photo is much more recent. It’s about eighteen months old, but when we walked that way recently, the poor old horse looked much the same. How much longer can it survive?
How come the carvings were allowed to become so neglected and careworn? That is so sad. What must the artist think about the state of his creation now?
They were set on fire by vandal, quite early on.
Will society ever find an acceptable answer to vandalism?
The stocks and/or the birch? It certainly needs more of a deterrent than we have now.
Indeed & then hang em high !
Thanks for the sentiment rather than the words, Speedicus. ‘Swollen to the size of a grapefruit’ is – fortunately – a common symptom that I’ve avoided.