Funding appeal for granite globe at Cleethorpes' Meridian Line
A FUNDRAISING effort has been launched to mount a £3,000 granite globe at Cleethorpes' Meridian Line.
Cleethorpes Renaissance Town Team is appealing to each Cleethorpes ward and local businesses to contribute £300 to the monument.
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New monument: An example of the granite globe to be used on the Meridian Line.
And Councillor Keith Brookes and Margaret Cracknell (Cons, Haverstoe) are among the first to help out.
As reported, the globe, weighing a tonne and measuring a metre wide, will mark the Meridian Line through Cleethorpes – the only UK seaside town it passes through.
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Town Team's Peter Kingsford said: "Like everyone, we have very little money, but this is to enhance the whole of Cleethorpes.
"We had the idea of asking our respective Cleethorpes wards to help us out by contributing 10 per cent. We are looking for any form of sponsorship."
The Town Team and an unknown donator have also chipped into the fund.
10 Comments
by davendogs
Wednesday, March 06 2013, 8:13AM
“Why no pictures of the actual stone? and plinth it will sit on. Are they a embarassment?”
by nietzche
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 3:46AM
“another vandal magnet”
by Big-Hat-Harry
Monday, March 04 2013, 10:21PM
“Bizarre57 the word "donator" is a synonym for "donor", and dates from the 15th century.”
by the_cynic
Monday, March 04 2013, 8:42PM
“Why?”
by davendogs
Monday, March 04 2013, 2:16PM
“We are being hoodwinked. 3 grand and the rest. Innitial purchase cost. Shipping. Storage. Installation. More on top of that. Then the upkeep, bet your bottom $ it will get spray painted. It's a arty farty idea.”
by Bizarre57
Monday, March 04 2013, 1:58PM
“Oooooo the Tellywag is now making up words! I always thought someone who donated money was a donor. A donator?!”
by justsaying
Monday, March 04 2013, 1:52PM
“We have enough stones in Cleethorpes these days as it is. I also worry that the Labour led council will get rid of the globe in a few weeks like they did with the bulbs near the kiosk”
by Wolla247
Monday, March 04 2013, 1:10PM
“Are they seriously asking for money to fund a big stone?”
by kittycloe
Monday, March 04 2013, 12:51PM
“Would it not have been an idea to have asked "Local Businesses" to make a contribution towards
the flower beds that NELC have ripped up, they could have put up a small board to say the name of the firm that had made a donation towards the up keep of the flowe beds.
But then again NELC "Bull in a China shop" would look to the easy option.
Stewart”
by Madasahatter
Monday, March 04 2013, 11:10AM
“A missed opportunity by NELC, they could have sold bunches of flowers!”