Bench website explains it all

I HAVE visited the website www.thelongestbenchintheworld.com and it answers all the concerns raised by recent correspondents about beach access, by illustrating the slats dropping to ground level or slats looping over to provide access points.
By The Newsroom
Published 28th Aug 2009, 13:47 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 01:17 BST

I urge all people on both sides of the discussion to visit this website.

I think it will either please or appal you.

Readers should also visit the Studio Weave site and click to look at and read about its other nine projects.

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I found that most enlightening. I quite liked its other bench.

I know the promenade is not a workplace, but I do wonder whether anyone has asked for a health and safety risk assessment on this design, given that children will inevitable run along it, climb the loops and stick their fingers between the named slats.

And does the design accommodate litter bins or do we just stuff it down the gap at the back?

Still, if our non-continuous seating does not qualify for a bench record, perhaps we could claim to have the longest kiddies' xylophone?

Mark Williams

Mantling Road

Littlehampton

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Editor's note: Some useful points by Mr Williams here, so after a long debate, this correspondence is now closed for the time being, barring any replies from the bench backers to his questions.

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