The skip outside the Abbey Grounds has been filled to overflowing. There is even a child’s buggy on top.
There is a display in the museum explaining the new sculpture that will be located outside those gates near where the skip is. It is designed by the sculptor Michael Fairfax and is shaped rather like the traffic cone. It will be called the MLFMMVI Needle (MMVI is 2006 and MLF may be Michale L Fairfax).
Inside, the scaffolding is off Trendell’s Folley, and some new tension wires now hold the two sides together. A path is being built around.
At the Gateway end there is till a lot of banging and shovelling going on as workmen position slaps and corner stones.
Behind the fence, and under the arch, the work continues, most of it in a foreign tongue. A lot of builders (as well as Tesco workers) come from Eastern Europe now that the EU has expanded.
Work has also begun on the Old Abbey House car-park which will be re-laid and-, by creating a ramp, accessibility to the Information Centre and Town Council offices improved.