Mine have barricaded a road that was used to drive to the train station and I have no fucking idea why….only noticed it last year lol
Public chess boards are cool.
It’s not that weird, I’ve seen these in movies showing places in America often and wondered why I have never heard of any being in the UK before.
I play chess and don’t get out a lot, if they put these in local to me I’d use them all the time. You get to socialise without having to be overly sociable and get out of the house/fresh air, seems like a great idea.
Seems like a nice idea.
I really, really like the idea of this but I know my hometown and nothing nice ever lasts long.
Give it a couple of weeks and that will be a table and chairs in the middle of a mud swamp.
A few years ago our council spent a load of cash on ‘gym equipment’ for the park. Looks awful (imo), completely impractical, not ergonomic, etc. I’ve never seen anyone use them.
How did someone so young become Mayor? *checks notes* ahh he’s a Gay man. Box ticked!
It’s a very nice park with good facilities for all ages – we have tennis courts, an all weather football pitch / basketball court, a splash pad, play park, music in the summer, and a very reasonably priced snack hut with lots of seating. These are a nice addition, although I would have preferred a full reconstruction of The Eliminator…
Now to take the piss out of my friends who still live in Chippenham.
But if its a nice table/chair its not necessarily a bad thing, you can do other things with it too after all. Its essentially just a table with a checkerboard pattern on it.
What if I wanna play draughts?!
Why is the mayor 12.
You have excess budget? Mines just about saved for one more year from bankruptcy
I can’t tell if that’s a 16 year old boy or a 40 year old woman
No way has Chippenham made it to CasualUK. I’m so proud of my hometown
5% per year increase on council tax for the last 4 years is a joke then they wank money away
I love how he’s not an old man.
He’s the mayor because he made a bet with his mates that he could do it.
In Chester they suddenly reduced one of the busiest roads into the city to one lane to create a bus lane. There was a massive outcry (and traffic buildup) and so within a couple of weeks they just put up signs saying ‘bus lane not in use’.
My guess is they did this as some funding exercise for public transport/green targets. The speed of the backtracking was both fantastic and hilarious.
This is really nice, not weird. When my Dad was retired and not getting out much he’d have loved this, and I think my 16 year old would use it too. He tells me they have chess boards at his 6th form and loads of kids play at break and lunch. Nice to see the nerds (used in the most affectionate age way, I’m a nerd myself) provided for occasionally, and not just the sporty kids.
Could have put a few more paving slabs down .
Teq table! When they first put it in I thought it was a ping pong table so I was really excited. Got closed and it had a weird curve to it. Never heard of the game teq before but it’s like pong pong but with a full sized football.
I often walk my dogs there and not once seen it used.
where as our council is too poor and have stopped all learning evening classes until the foreseeable 😭😂
Nice to see the locals getting somthing from the government, since the MP for Chippenham is keen to waste money….
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I think this is really nice tbh 🤷
I hope that didn’t make the Mayor late for school.
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Is that the mayor, or just some school kid with excessive bling?
We need more things like this. Pianos. Table tennis tables. Boules. Chess. Tennis courts. Bravo to the mayor.
Why is the mayor a 16 year old kid?
Cost: £4.9bn
no back support for whites
Muddy chess though. A bit kinky? 🙂
Feel suspiciously like ‘use up any excess budget before the start of the next financial year so we don’t get allocated a lower budget next year’
Dudes looks 15.
THe looks like a primary school kid on book day in this photo https://www.chippenham.gov.uk/civic-events/
Mine have barricaded a road that was used to drive to the train station and I have no fucking idea why….only noticed it last year lol
Public chess boards are cool.
It’s not that weird, I’ve seen these in movies showing places in America often and wondered why I have never heard of any being in the UK before.
I play chess and don’t get out a lot, if they put these in local to me I’d use them all the time. You get to socialise without having to be overly sociable and get out of the house/fresh air, seems like a great idea.
Seems like a nice idea.
I really, really like the idea of this but I know my hometown and nothing nice ever lasts long.
Give it a couple of weeks and that will be a table and chairs in the middle of a mud swamp.
A few years ago our council spent a load of cash on ‘gym equipment’ for the park. Looks awful (imo), completely impractical, not ergonomic, etc. I’ve never seen anyone use them.
How did someone so young become Mayor? *checks notes* ahh he’s a Gay man. Box ticked!
It’s a very nice park with good facilities for all ages – we have tennis courts, an all weather football pitch / basketball court, a splash pad, play park, music in the summer, and a very reasonably priced snack hut with lots of seating. These are a nice addition, although I would have preferred a full reconstruction of The Eliminator…
Now to take the piss out of my friends who still live in Chippenham.
But if its a nice table/chair its not necessarily a bad thing, you can do other things with it too after all. Its essentially just a table with a checkerboard pattern on it.
What if I wanna play draughts?!
Why is the mayor 12.
You have excess budget? Mines just about saved for one more year from bankruptcy
I can’t tell if that’s a 16 year old boy or a 40 year old woman
No way has Chippenham made it to CasualUK. I’m so proud of my hometown
5% per year increase on council tax for the last 4 years is a joke then they wank money away
I love how he’s not an old man.
He’s the mayor because he made a bet with his mates that he could do it.
In Chester they suddenly reduced one of the busiest roads into the city to one lane to create a bus lane. There was a massive outcry (and traffic buildup) and so within a couple of weeks they just put up signs saying ‘bus lane not in use’.
My guess is they did this as some funding exercise for public transport/green targets. The speed of the backtracking was both fantastic and hilarious.
This is really nice, not weird. When my Dad was retired and not getting out much he’d have loved this, and I think my 16 year old would use it too. He tells me they have chess boards at his 6th form and loads of kids play at break and lunch. Nice to see the nerds (used in the most affectionate age way, I’m a nerd myself) provided for occasionally, and not just the sporty kids.
Could have put a few more paving slabs down .
Teq table! When they first put it in I thought it was a ping pong table so I was really excited. Got closed and it had a weird curve to it. Never heard of the game teq before but it’s like pong pong but with a full sized football.
I often walk my dogs there and not once seen it used.
where as our council is too poor and have stopped all learning evening classes until the foreseeable 😭😂
Nice to see the locals getting somthing from the government, since the MP for Chippenham is keen to waste money….
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/24168867.michelle-donelans-hamas-claims-cost-taxpayer-15-000/
Road repairs…
There is nothing weird about the council providing sports and leisure facilities for all ages, interests and abilities.