[Margaret Pilkington]

I think the tenuous link to the Pals regiment is both dishonest and opportunistic and was attached to this project as a means of deflecting dissent(council members knew that there would BE dissent to the project)....of course anything linked to the pals Regiment is alright...except it isn't.
Putting tramstyle seating...how is that a link to the regiment?
if the paving stones were engraved with the names of the fallen, then that might be a link, but as far as I am aware it is only a statue of a stray mongrel dog which is the link to the Pals.
It is suggested that this was not the dog belonging to the regiment, but a mutt who had wandered into town and joined the parade.
What a bloomin' waste of money!