[Madhatter]

all follies were once modern day, and our parks are full of them.

youths are not interested in parks with or without panopticans, kids are, adults are, if there's something to do there.
Rawtenstall has tennis courts and bowling green. dunno if they're on my gallery pics but they're there. other than that parks are out of fasion, and most are run down. Bacup parks fairy dell is a perfect example, it's a beautiful park with a cascading stream, but it's under used because it went out of fasion and got run down to the point now that non of the cascades are working. Kids love that place, they think it's magical, I've heard them say, they'd love it even more if it was working properly and was clean and tidy, and so would the adults. Somewhere to sit would be nice, watch the world go by.
Thats just an example not all parks have streams so those without need something. some sort of interest or it's not a park it's just a piece of green field.
I'll go to see them when I'm up that way gayle and I'll photograph them and put them on my site with all my other monuments and sculptures, the blackpool ones, the doncaster brick train engine, the Stoke on Trent michelin men roundabout, the cowboy sherifs at popular 2000 services at warrington, the mersey wave. our shrove tuesday football games sculpture.

What I would like to do here, is get artists to sculpture pictures in rope light and decorate the town, with them, like christmas lights but they'd be based on book characters cos we're a booktown, they'd only be on as end of summer of course. that would need lots of money though and I wouldn't know were to start.

seems a bit mixed up that, but I see them as art, and something to look at, brighten the place up, tidy a place up, they are a modern day folly. You just need the right thing in the right place. I do think that one of the things against the hyndburn thing is that people see that all that money has been spent on the town centre and it's still bare, yet money is being spent on a panopticon in the middle of nowhere.