One of the best laid-out parks in the Potteries is at Burslem. It’s a Victorian park with quite a pedigree.
They’re completely refurbishing it, and these new steel benches have been installed. I like the design, which is modern and attractive. They have the virtue of being vandal-proof too, I guess.
But some of my friends didn’t like the introduction of cold metal into what should be a ‘soft’ landscape.