[Discuss] Parker's Piece

[Jean Perraton]

I too was similarly inconvenienced by barriers to crossing Midsuummer 
Common. It was the Saturday of Strawberry Fair (June7) and I was cycling 
across from Newmarket Road to Victoria Avenue  to a reception, already a bit 
late, when  two officials insisted I get off my bike and walk - only to find 
that my intended exit to Victoria Avenue was blocked by a metal fence. Then 
I found myself walking over wet muddy grass  searching for a way out. On 
grumbling about this to another couple at the reception I found that they 
(two elderly and most respectable looking citizens) had been required to 
have their bags searched before being allowed to continue across the common.

It seems to me that these events have got too big and too intrusive.

Jean Perraton


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Norton" <simon at dpmms.cam.ac.uk>
To: <discuss at soscambridge.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 8:16 PM
Subject: [Discuss] Parker's Piece


>A fortnight ago I needed to catch an early train and decided, as I usually 
>do
> when in this position, to walk across Parker's Piece instead of Regent St.
>
> However there was an event on that day (14 June) and caravans etc. were 
> parked
> on the grass. Whoever organised the event seemed to be at pains to stop 
> people
> from getting access to the grass between these caravans and Regent 
> Terrace,
> because as soon as the railings on the path towards Mill Rd stopped the 
> event
> area began, and the first caravan (or whatever it was) was chained to the 
> last
> railing with no gap to get through.
>
> Well there wasn't any real difficulty in climbing over the railings, but 
> it was
> still a bit of a nuisance -- and a quite unnecessary one surely.
>
> Simon Norton
>
>
>
>
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