the bench project

Pullens Yard, Kennington

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A bench from Charlie

Florence

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Paris

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On the banks of the Seine

In Montparnasse

In the Catacombes

Below Sacre Coeur

Legoland, Windsor

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This one is from Helen who was in the enchanted forest!

Kilpisjarvi

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Pinhao station on the Douro

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from Jean & Dick

Irun

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on the border between France and Spain, also from Jean & Dick

Sochi

2011-10-23T15:00:00.000+01:00

Posted on behalf of Alan, this bench is beside the museum in the centre of Sochi on the Black Sea. Sochi will be the next host of the Winter Olympics in 2014.

2011-10-14T15:50:00.000+01:00

Justice sits on a bench, high up on a building on Calle de Alcala in Madrid

2011-10-13T15:49:00.001+01:00

In Plaza Mayor, Madrid. A bench that's never empty.

G Live Guildford

2011-09-21T18:45:00.000+01:00

At Great Dixter

2011-09-15T23:56:00.001+01:00

The above bench looks over a mosaic of two dachshunds called Dahlia and Canna.

Birmingham decorated bench

2011-09-04T18:19:00.000+01:00

A beautiful bench all wrapped by by Ruth Singer and helpers in St Philips Square for Craftspace

Madisonville, on the Tchfuncte!

2011-08-13T19:54:00.000+01:00

More AK benches

2011-07-19T17:05:00.001+01:00

In Denali NP

Homer spit, AK

2011-07-16T05:53:00.000+01:00

Homer airport, AK

2011-07-15T23:38:00.001+01:00

Seward, Alaska

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Surrey Sculpture Park

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Walking around the Surrey Sculpture Park on Sunday we found all these amazing benches. The shiny chrome ones look like benches, but maybe they are sculptures.
The quotation on the third bench is: Dance there upon the shore; What need have you to care For wind or waters roar? (WB Yeats, To a Child dancing in the Wind).

Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2011

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Cornish benches

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Land's End benches

Mousehole seat

Glendurgan

Glendurgan boat bench

Talkeetna

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St Francisville - rather fishy!

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Surrey Docks Farm

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Canada Water

2011-06-10T10:43:00.000+01:00

Charlottesville, Virginia

2011-06-01T12:55:00.000+01:00

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A cosy bench amid the National Collection of Dahlias

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The Times Eureka Garden in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

2011-05-26T18:10:00.000+01:00

Bench with a message.

Try to be wise, but hide your wisdom well. The world reveres a pearl, but not its shell

Chelsea Bench bench

2011-05-25T18:32:00.001+01:00

Celebrating 650 years of 'The Bench', as the Justices of the Peace are known, this was one of the Urban Gardens at Chelsea 2011. Its was entitled The Magistrates' Garden.

Jazz fest, NOLA

2011-05-05T20:02:00.001+01:00

This bench is strictly for performers!

Butler Greenwood Plantation, LA

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On the porch with two chintzy cushions.

Afton Villa Garden, LA

2011-05-02T20:45:00.001+01:00

A lovely bench in the shade of an old tree with old man's beard and a friendly nymph.
Afton Villa Gardens are beautiful, the villa itself has gone.

Rosedown Plantation, LA

2011-05-01T19:39:00.003+01:00

This bench is on the back porch within earshot of those jangling bells; so if someone in the house needed you, you could quickly get up from the bench and attend to their needs.

Oakley House

2011-05-01T19:32:00.003+01:00

A bench that stores stuff.
Maybe John Audubon stored stuff here and sat on this bench at some time during his stay at Oakley House, 1821

Baton Rouge bench

2011-04-30T20:25:00.000+01:00

Outside the Hilton Hotel that was the historic Heidelberg and Capitol House Hotel in a former life.

WW1 boxcar bench in Baton Rouge

2011-04-29T20:15:00.000+01:00

Benches at Ramster Gardens

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A log bench amid the rhododendrons

A slightly sad bench on the hillside

A cool stone bench under the cedars

A bench called Marjorie in the bluebells

An 'oh, so New Orleans' bench!

2011-04-23T17:37:00.000+01:00

Coffee Bench

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This little pew was spotted outside a café in Birmingham

San Diego

2011-04-06T13:45:00.002+01:00

New Orleans benches, in town and at the plantations

2011-04-06T13:42:00.000+01:00

Cube, Birmingham

2011-04-06T13:33:00.000+01:00

More Fredericksburg - sweet!

2011-04-02T05:06:00.001+01:00

Fredericksburg, hill country texas

2011-04-02T05:05:00.001+01:00

In the very fancy capitol building, Austin, capital of Texas

2011-04-02T05:02:00.001+01:00

More rodeo benches 2

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Rodeo benches 1

2011-03-24T03:54:00.001Z

another bench in anthropologie, NOLA

2011-03-15T14:06:00.000Z

Jackson sq benches, n'awlins

2011-03-13T19:10:00.000Z

Outside the V&A London

2011-03-06T09:59:00.000Z

Alresford Bench

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This man is making a bench at Alresford Station, the home of the Watercress Line. He has just finished painting the frame and the green slats are propped on the left of the photo.Below you can see what he is aiming for.

Outside Anthrology,NOLA

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A bench with built in entertainment! Prospect Park, Portsmouth, NH

At Trentham estate Gardens

Avebury Manor Gardens

Town Hall, Centre Sandwich

Some beautiful benches from Debbie

West Kirby

2011-01-24T16:56:00.001Z

A very frosty bench from Ann - just behind is a view down to the sea.

At The Jinney Ring

2011-01-22T16:44:00.000Z

Two Portuguese benches from Lisbon

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A place to sit in the sun on summer days

In the Jardim Botanico

New Year benches

2011-01-04T21:34:00.000Z

At Stourhead

Salisbury Cathederal

Shigatse

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Gyantse

2010-12-25T11:46:00.000Z

Lhasa

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Outside the Potala Palace

Kathmandu

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Pashupatinath

Boudhanath

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Birmingham International

2010-12-22T11:27:00.004Z

Jon Brooks, True Loves Blue 2000

in European Section of Currier Museum of Art

outside on the patio of Zimmerman House

from Debbie

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bench in Portsmouth from Debbie

Sant Cruzzzz!

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Sucre

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In the salar

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Machu Picchu

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Nazca

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NYC 5th ave

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Central park

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Bisous 'bench'

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Isla Holbox

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A stone bench against the walls of Castelo de Sao Jorge, Lisbon

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Bench with public art, French Market, New Orleans

2010-11-07T16:38:00.002Z

Special twin benches for cigar smokers in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Pumpkin bench

2010-11-06T23:40:00.001Z

This bench with its pumpkin head and friendly crow was spotted near the Black Bass Hotel, Lumberville, PA

2010-11-06T16:36:00.005Z

In Pennsylvania

Five in a row

2010-09-23T23:54:00.002+01:00

Petra, Jordan

Rural Life Centre at Tilford, Surrey

2010-08-15T19:42:00.003+01:00

Two green benches .

A collection of benches .

A 'special' bench with four holes and four buckets .

Two very different ones at Waddesdon Manor

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Benches at RHS Garden Hyde Hall

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Block oak seating - well almost a bench, just divided into quarters.

A Hyde Hall bench in the meadow

Benches in the Hilltop Garden

By the Barn

In the Dry Garden

In Road Field

RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2010

2010-07-11T12:15:00.002+01:00

Combat Stress Therapeutic Garden

An Uprising of Kindness Garden

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A bench with a message. Created by Martin Cook

Bench among the flowers

2010-06-18T21:56:00.000+01:00

At Loseley Park in the lovely walled garden

Benches at Chelsea Flower Show 2010

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Christian before Dior

and before they placed the jacket strategically.

Not so much a bench, more a Shell house sofa!

A bench for the football World Cup!

The ultimate Indian bench

This bench was in the Dyslexia Research Trust garden highlighting some of the ground breaking work they carry out. The blue glass water feature represents the focussed, tinted light helping affected people to read.

(see more at www.dyslexic.org.uk )

Another of those Wisley benches. This one was in the sponsor's garden, The M & G Garden.

A bench that is more a flower arrangement, or a fairy bench, maybe.

By the train track

2010-05-28T12:06:00.000+01:00

For watching the trains go by or viewing the rhodies

E G again

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Among the rhododendrons

Exbury North

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- passengers for the use of on the Exbury Steam Railway

Exbury Gardens

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Under the pergola

Exbury Gardens

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Around a tree

Exbury Gardens

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Benches with a view of the Beaulieu River

Just in Hyde Park

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And looking remarkably like the benches at RHS Garden Wisley.

Coughton Court

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Some lovely benches taken by Laura

On the way to Edinburgh!

2010-04-09T20:36:00.000+01:00

Abroath & Carnoustie

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Stonehaven and along the coast to Montrose

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Looking back to Portsoy

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Cullen

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Little Ferry

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