Designer Village Traditional Cache
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Parking available roadside near to the cache site.
Stealth required, overlooked by the houses over the other side of the Green.
New Fryston Village Green was part of the Castleford Project for a series of TV programs called Kevin McCloud and the Big Town Plan.
A Designer Village Green was created by Martha Schwartz.
Schwartz's solution is a modern angular layout with Antony Gormley sculptures, a bridle path (horses dot the hillsides) and an old red colliery wheel. One wonders what "Jack Hulme, colliery worker, hairdresser and photographer", who lived at 14 North Street from 1906 to 1990 (so the plaque by the front door says), would make of such an avant-garde design. The lady from number 17, for one, wasn't happy. "You put that wheel back," she shouted through expletives when Talkback came to film. "Arthur bloody Scargill put that wheel where it was."
The design process for the Village Green was based upon a series of public consultation meetings with the current residents.
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