YP Letters: Removal of memorial seat at Great Yorkshire Showground shows lack of respect

A Dales landscape, complete with stone wall.

BEING a dry stone waller  myself and a member of a national association, I was interested in your article (The Yorkshire Post, March 15) regarding a seating area at the Great Yorkshire Showground built by the Yorkshire Dry Stone Guild, a very commendable project.

Myself and several colleagues have also attended at the showground on numerous occasions and have built numerous seats walls etc, run education projects and workshops.

During this time we have been treated well by the Society staff, so much so that when one member of the staff who had always made us welcome sadly died, it was decided to build a memorial seat in his memory.

I now understand that the seat has been taken down, either by or on behalf of the society.

If the seat did need to be taken down, surely the people who built it should have been asked to either take it down or be present when this was done.

The removal of the seat in this manner is disrespectful both to the family of the person it was built for and the people who built it.

I would add that these are my personal views and I do not speak on behalf of any association.