Nature's Pencil: Gallery: Detail of Warrington Town Hall Gates
The elaborate gates of Warrington town hall are often photographed. I wanted to suggest the whole from its details, so I homed in on just one of the hundreds of decorative items.
The rest of the beautiful railings were torn down to supply metal for weapons and munitions in World War II. It is a sad comment on the kind of country we live in that over 60 years later our so-called leaders have not seen fit to replace them. The powers that be have always been quick to take whatever they want from the ordinary people, but very slow and unwilling to give anything back.
Of course Warrington is no different from the rest of the country. There is hardly a town or village in England that is not scarred by the sawn-off stumps of once attractive fences.
