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Newbury town council have reinstated the boating pond, you can actually boat on it again. Here are a selection of pedal boats to prove it.


Quite why it was taken out of service is a mystery to me. I expect it was some health and safety thing, after all the water is nearly six inches deep. 

For a while it was drained dry, but it started to fill with rubbish and shopping trolleys. 
 
Decades ago it had a nice little brick sculpture in the middle, but that was removed for some reason: Perhaps it was dangerous.

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  1. Jim Huckle26 April 2011 at 17:03

    Apparently the brick boat was removed because people thought it was ugly or something. Bunch of Philistines if you ask me, I thought it looked nice...

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