6:51pm Friday 3rd September 2010
ONCE again, ‘Grandad’ Rex Pawley has used up precious space (Letters, August 27) to hammer away at his own personal vendetta against the council and its plans for a new stadium, the football and rugby teams, and particularly Steve Hayes – the owner of the teams – who really gets up his nose, possibly because he is well off and has the influence to get things done.
Mr Pawley is 83 and has lived through a previous recession. He has also lived through times when children and young people played in the streets, in the fields, went off fishing, climbing trees, building bonfires to cook potatoes until they were black, scrumping for apples, all in safety. Out all day, only coming home when they got hungry.
I was there too you see, and I know by just looking around at the kids of today, something good has to be put in place of all those pleasures. They have to have somewhere safe to go and use up all that energy instead of ‘hanging out’, drinking in the local parks, and being what the oldies call a damned nuisance.
If the proposed sports village materialises, I suspect the range of ages of users of the facilities would be from toddlers to OAPs, because these days, if you want a long life, you have to stay fit. It is a very selfish attitude to deny pleasure to our young people by saying “if you have fun when you are young, you will pay for it when you are old”.
I spend a lot of time in Wycombe, though unfortunately I no longer live there. However, I still get my Bucks Free Press just to keep up, and I hope I live long enough to see the new stadium open.
Mrs Margaret Webb, Harthall Lane, Kings Langley, Herts
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