Memorial benches

Actually, a shop is a public space.
It has to be a memorial though durhamjen so you are missing the point.
Besides, I need my money for holidays whilst I am alive.

Go on, then, lemon, do it now. Why wait until you are dead?

Why?
Think of all the grateful women ( and the tired bored husband now and then) that would be grateful for a sit down.

I can see a difference between a public place and a shop.

Thank you I thought so too.

I don't see why anything which serves a purpose can't be donated.
Its a lovely idea.

" Please don't let your personal antagonism follow on to other thread."

Exactly, chewbacca.

As someone who, at present, has problems walking very far and cannot stand for any length of time either, memorial benches are much appreciated and Lemon's suggestion of memorial seats in department stores sounds wonderful. What's wrong with it? I cannot shop at the moment precisely because there are no seats. I was so pleased to find one in Lakeland and thanked the manager only to be told he has to hide it round the corner as Head Office doesn't approve. If shopping was the favourite pastime of the deceased then it seems quite apt to me.

I'm sorry for your loss durham, but there are many other posters on this thread who are also bereaved; some of them more recently than you. Lemon posted her initial remark about her comfy chair in Debenhams yesterday and it was met with responses in the vain that she posted ie, humour. Please don't let your personal antagonism follow on to other threads, it's unfair to those of us who have enjoyed contributing to this thread which has, until now, been cheerful, light hearted and friendly.

My husband died six years ago, chewbacca, and we have a memorial bench for him.
Sorry if I am taking it a bit more seriously than a chair in Debenhams.

I love memorial benches, it’s always interesting reading them and relating to the people who also loved the view. Rufford park on Nottinghamshire has loads, family often leave flowers, it’s a feeling that the departed are still enjoying the same places as I am doing.
I was going to have a bench made for my parents in Worthing, however the rip off cost and the fact I live in Scotland, I am going to have a memorial bench for my garden and add all the names of my valued members of my family.

That was uncalled for durham, this thread is in "chat", if you haven't noticed and the majority of the posts, thus far, have been light hearted and friendly. Don't spoil it please.

Do you always have to trivialise every subject, lemon?

I want a small plaque on the comfy chair:
This chair has been donated by Lemongrove who spent many happy hours browsing in this store, this view of the womens wear section was her particular favourite.Enjoy!

Yes, anything that makes customers lives easier and keeps them in the store is a good idea.
Small coffee shops with free wifi in stores is a good idea too.

Lemongrove wrote: "I think I will endow a comfy chair in Debenhams instead,
Whatever happened to customer chairs in shops?"

The defunct Debenhams premises where I live had a open to the rest of the floor cafe from where one could sit at ease and watch the shoppers. This was a winning combination, and there is a marketing opportunity for such facilities in shops. With the decline of the high street it needs an innovative

look at what it can provide.

I like that idea ??

I think I will endow a comfy chair in Debenhams instead,
Whatever happened to customer chairs in shops?

It's a good job we don't all want them, with over half a million deaths in England and Wales every year!

Let me put some of you straight there are no benches up Snowdon

I’m not going then ! ??

Ah, that's lovely. I hope my mums bench is someone's favourite, for some reason.

Miss A that is just what I do when I sit on my favourite bench and the first name of the dead person is actually Jean!

I love memorial benches. They make me think about the person who died, and of their family, which surely is one of the reasons they’re there. I would love to think that after I’m gone a small part of me could still be out in the world, in a place I loved, even if it’s only as a memory.

And as a mum and a grandmother I can think of nothing nicer than having a baby lie on me to have its nappy changed. I would hope that some of the love I had for my own babies and grandbabies would somehow transmit to any other little one who came my way.

I read in an article in a paper last week that someone had said that the only thing wrong with Ben Nevis was that there were no cafe or seats at the top!