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Worked in the end! I was going to post the Paul Gough site too, it has some interesting back story about how much resistance there was in the early 80's to building the park, mostly concerned with the associations it had with the far Left. Some quotes from opposing councillors about the park and accompanying exhibition:
'Peace Parks are typically Eastern European Government intentions which do not serve the interests of true peace. Transplanting such an expensive gimmick to this country is to introduce an entirely alien and unhelpful concept. '
' A display of one-sided disarmament propaganda … peddling the discredited line advocated by communists, neutralists, pacifists and defeatists…’
Another vowed to destroy it if he ever came to power.
All that hostility for something celebrating peace!