Broadway Insanity - Page 4

garinda · 08-07-2006, 22:33

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Originally Posted by Gayle

I suppose there is method in the madness. Accrington means 'ring of oak' and presumably all the original oaks have long gone so they perhaps have a plan to reinstate a ring of oaks around the town.

Good idea considering the relevance of Oak trees to Accrington, but Broadway is hardly ringing the town centre.

Oak trees are one of our most beautiful native trees, but I don't think trees that drop their leaves as well as shade vast areas when full grown, are the right choice for a town's main thoroughfare.

Banging my same old drum..... this afternoon I was stood on Broadway and have decided that the shabby blue and white Town Hall extension and shops is not only the ugliest, shabbiest municipal building in Britain, it's thw worst I've ever seen anywhere in the world.

garinda · 08-07-2006, 22:47

Just imagine a charity shop in place of the shack.

Madhatter · 09-07-2006, 01:27

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I think the new trees WILL look beautiful....but I could see nothing wrong with the older trees....and how much nicer it would have looked if there had been the mix of the more mature trees with the striplings.....it is about character. I just get a bit jaded with the homogenized centres of towns......all the shops the same.....little difference in the street furniture.

They will look beautiful if took and planted where they should be planted.
Oak trees grow in to enormous trees, what you going to do with a 60ft wide oak tree on broadway?, put christmas lights on it?
I really can't imagine what they are thinking because aren't they in pots too. They'll get pot bound in a couple of years, they'll never do any good because they're the wrong tree for the location.

As for that blue monstrosity, i'd have thought the council would have told the owners to maintain it and make it safe.

Madhatter · 09-07-2006, 01:29

lol well done for finding that pic rindy. proves the point perfectly

SPUGGIE J · 09-07-2006, 07:34

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Originally Posted by garinda

Just imagine a charity shop in place of the shack.

Thats a kids paradise that G. Nice one.

lindsay ormerod · 09-07-2006, 16:38

The trees aren't in pots so Gawd knows what havoc the roots are going to create when they are huge oaks! Anyway you can't see 'em now because of the Pot Fair that has just set up for a week;it's virtually in my doorway yet again! So roll up for hideous pot dogs and awful statuettes of elephants! They also do a nice chrome Elvis statuette

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Margaret Pilkington · 09-07-2006, 17:00

It is going to be a long time before the Oak trees in Broadway reach the maturity that Madhatter cites....there will probably have been five or six refurbishments in that time....so Lindsey, I don't think you need to worry about the roots...they will probably have been chopped down like the other mature trees further up Broadway.

Madhatter · 10-07-2006, 21:34

15 yrs. they'll be about 20 ft across, about 30 ft high and full of nobly acorns. They do grow slow but they are the king of the forrest.
Are they english oak?

WillowTheWhisp · 10-07-2006, 21:50

No they aren't English oak which makes it all the dafter.

Those trees at the top end of Broadway were hardly more than saplings themselves so not likely to have caused any major injury if one had toppled over. I think they had been vandalised which may explain why the new ones are imprisoned in metal cages. I can't help wondering what happens when the trunks are too big for the very small diameter of those metal cages.

Oh joy of joys. The Pot Fair. One of the raisons d'être for our Broadway design innit?

Madhatter · 11-07-2006, 01:54

They let them grow into them willow, like the did here, then they cut the tree down with the cage on and replace tree and cage.

Neil · 11-07-2006, 05:14

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Originally Posted by Madhatter

They let them grow into them willow, like the did here, then they cut the tree down with the cage on and replace tree and cage.

I read somewhere that you are going for Town Councillor.
You should do well as all you ever do is whinge and moan about things.

Madhatter · 11-07-2006, 22:08

councillors don't whinge and moan they just ignore things and pretend everythings ok.

The above isn't a whinge or moan though neal it's fact, that is what happens, the tree grows to the edge of the pavement grid or cage and grows in to it, then the only thing that can be done once that happens is replace the tree.

I will whinge and moan though by saying it only happens through neglect.

Margaret Pilkington · 12-07-2006, 12:55

Isn't there anyone else out there who finds it ever so slightly fishy to have three (seemingly healthy) trees chopped down (on health and safety grounds) just a few days before the work on the top end of Broadway begins.

Oh.....I'd better take TWO of my Anti-cynic pills for that now!

Is it just me who thinks that anything inconvenient can be removed if you cite Health and Safety as the reason?

No....better make it THREE anti-cynic pills.

Madhatter · 12-07-2006, 15:43

I'm suprised they didn't blame it on a mini tornado like they did down here.