"Don't worry, they'll get used to it. After a bit they won't even notice it's there." (one conservationist to another)
Perhaps people will even make trips from the other side of the city to admire it. Tinsley Wire (now TWIL) may give their employees time off with bus fares paid.
In days gone by they would come on the regular bus up Hathersage Road from the further reaches of Sheffield in August to pick the bilberries. They would bring their bags and buckets and tins. If they do that this year they may be disappointed. Cows will be on the site and cows enjoy eating bilberry. And better not bring the dog either. One has already been seriously injured on the barbed wire as he dashed off to the side to avoid a horse.
I don't think you can find a similar four strand barbed wire fence anywhere alongside a public right of way in land designated as a public open space and public pleasure ground.
Another first for Sheffield!
See Mark Fisher's website for his comments.
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Is it true this fence cost £18,000 to erect? Where did the money come from? And what about all the rest of the boundary work? The whole lot must come to over £50k.
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