BENCHES: Unsuitable as shrines
When does a commemorative bench become a shrine?
Walking past the huts at Blyth beach I couldn’t help notice the benches ordained with flower pots, plaques, photos and fairy lights. Some still have Christmas decorations on them.
I thought the point of these benches was to sit, think and reflect on life, but you can’t even sit down on some of these benches.
I can understand the loss a family has suffered, but these should not become a shrine, adding more and more items so that they can’t be used for the purpose they were made for.
M Stevens
Blyth