Wilmslow Town Council is considering commissioning a Jubilee gate for The Carrs to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
To mark this significant achievement of Her Majesty they are looking to have a new gate built for The Carrs which would incorporate some ideas put forward by local school children.
Last Autumn the Council invited residents, schools and community groups to to submit proposals to provide a permanent memorial to mark the Jubilee.
However, when the judges met a couple of months ago to review the entries they found it quite difficult to select a winner.
Town Clerk Matthew Jackson said "There were some fantastic ideas but to do any of them justice would probably be cost prohibitive, but as a judging panel we want to utilise these entries so we have come up with the idea of commissioning a gate using a number of entries from the school children to inspire the design of the gate. One entry was a 3D diamond so one idea is to have a 3D diamond within the gate. There were also a number of drawings which capture the Jubilee and we felt those designs could be duplicated in the gate.
"Instead of having one winner we would have four winners whose designs have inspired the gate."
The Town Council has received quotes from four metal workers for making and fitting the gate, which range from £2000 to £2500. They agreed in principal at Monday's Town Council to commission a gate and cap the cost at £2500.
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His widow's gift of land below the wood, Col. Ernest Greg's gift of land at Twinnies and the purchase of land below Hawthorn Lane by WUDC, as well as the Council-funded foot bridge, meant that the whole of the Carrs by 1935 could be made into a public park and recreation area.This was WUDC's way of marking the Silver Jubilee of George V and Queen Mary.
I hope that those who position any new gate are aware of this background and respect the benevolence of Henry Boddington.