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  Unfortunately the town's water aspects continue to be the victims of pen pushing short sighted accountants..nothing seems to matter but the bottom line in the annual report.
  
  Let me give you a brief history. When I first came here there was a pond in Granville Gardens. A nice pond indeed. Added beautifully to both the gardens and the general aspect. There was a bridge over the lovely pond. The bridge is still there today...but now it spans nothing...grass. I suppose we have to be grateful at least there is grass.
  
  Then a tad before my time but still in existence right outside my window when I moved here...the famous seafront fountain. I think Scotchie has in the past shown pictures of it. It lay there for years...no water, all gone, no spurting flowing fountain..all gone. Saved a few shillings on the annual accounting report. Recently they covered it over so not much chance of a revival now. All grass...but we must be grateful for grass. The harmless vegetation covers a multitude of sins.
  
  The last of the trilogy is the fountain in Market Sq. Another one destined to suffer a grisly fate at the whim of an accountants pen...to be replaced by a water feature. We have water features up and down the land, every back garden from Rotherham to Rotherhithe has a water feature...they are ten a penny, not so our fountain.
  
  We have lost two of these and are destined to lose the third one unless there is a rethink. Our assets are being stripped away but what has either council done to improve our aspects for tourism in their stead. I would like to see a list. Tourism is the big revenue earner these days in Kent, highlighted by the lack of proper jobs elsewhere...we need them, we need the tourists, why take away the things that interest them. We are stripping away assets, the very items that bring the tourist back.
  
  Imagine the Fountains of Rome being subjected to this kind of vision.
  'Lets demolish the Michelangelo and put up a water feature...will save us buckets of cash...'

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