MARC'S SHRINE: 28th APRIL 2010
Photographers by Fee and Ellie Warner

Ellie and Fee visited Marc's Shrine today (28th April, 2010) for a clean, tidy and polish. Ellie is now twenty and has been visiting the site since she was less than two years old. The Gallery are in order so the first ones show the site when we arrived with the bronze and the plaques rather grubby and in need to a jolly good clean.

The next photographs show you some of the rubbish in the undergrowth. The cleaner we took was a 'foam-type' so don't worry that the Memorial looks spray painted in that one photo! That is just the foam cleaner. After that it was time to clean the Bronze and as Marc donned a white false beard to appear as 'Santa Bolan' I'm sure he would have chuckled as he was given a white foamy beard and hair :-) The final couple of photos show the soil erosion from under the viewing platform. This will be rectified as soon as possible by building supports under each end of the platform.

Sadly there wasn't a single tribute left around the Memorial. This is so depressing as until around eighteen months ago there was pretty well no theft of the Swans and one had been there since 1999. This particular swan along with a number of others was widely reported to have been 'stolen' but they were all found in a 'stash' at the site and returned to their positions by the Memorial when we visited in January 2010.

For this reason we didn't take the swan Fee bought, but decided to see how things go. However, don't worry, I am sure the thief will get fed up with playing games sooner or later :-)

I would like to thank Ellie for all the help she has always put in at the site and we were delighted to accept her request to become a Full TAG Member with the same responsibility for the site as myself, Fee and Mark Rowe. We are proud to have such a lovely daughter :-)

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