a Skudenes bench

Shropshire benches

Bench photos by Ann

Bench with snails

Hadrian's Wall

Newcastle




Solway Coast




Whitehaven






Sellafield


Ravenglass

At Hanbury Hall

Benches by Ferry

Hay-on-Wye

Perrott's Folly

Chaddesley Woods

Hampton Court Palace FS

Jane Seymour's Bench

A bench at HCPFS in Jane Seymour's Garden, designed by Tracy Foster Garden Design. There was a garden for each of the six wives of Henry VIII in this the year of celebration of the 500th year since his accession to the throne.

Manchester

Gothenburg benches

SAS benches in Trysil

A Chelsea Bench

The Key, a garden at Chelsea Flower Show, was designed by Paul Stone. Homeless people and prisoners from all around the country grew the 10,000 plants for this garden. I don't know who made the bench!

Irish benches in Wicklow

St Powers Court



At the Ballyknocken cookery shool & hotel

The bench on the Downs

This is how the 'bench in the making' turned out. As you see it is an oak leaf. We found it again - they moved it from its place of construction. And we discovered that it has a plaque embedded in the 'stalk'.


It is sad to reflect on how young this person was when he died, but he must have had many good friends who have commemorated his short life with this beautiful bench with its spectacular view.

Some more Norwegian benches

in Gamle Stavanger


At Flor e Faere


by the oil museum


Opposite the chocolate shope

At the Malvern Spring show

A Bench in Progress

This bench has just appeared on Pewley Down. We hope to monitor its metamorphosis into a 'real' bench - if that is what it is destined to become.