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A letter from our town hall:
Dear Carry On Langport readers,
Just to let you know that the hole in my roof is celebrating its birthday today. Yes, it's now been letting in rain for 6 years.
My interior walls and rafters are busy rotting and I am now on about 8 different types of painkillers.
I know that people living nearby who can see the hole from their windows have notified clerk after clerk after clerk at the town council over the years. Unfortunately, nothing's been done.
It's because in your strange little town, which I am honoured to have been the centre of since 1733 [my predecessor fell down after a One Stop delivery lorry hit it] neither I nor the Hanging Chapel, Ridgway Hall or the Town Garden are supported by the town council with your council tax payments.
Responsibility for us was off loaded to a charitable trust some years ago. It's had different names over the years, at the moment it's called Landmark Langport.
Whatever they call it, the rather harsh deal has always been the same: no money to keep us going from townsfolk via council tax payments.
So it won't surprise you to know that the trust, run by a small group of volunteers with some not even living in Somerset, is financially on its knees.
Both Langport Town and Huish Episcopi Parish Councils have recently been asked for a grant to help out. It begs the question why can't there be a monthly payment to keep us going? It also begs the question, what the heck are town councillors spending your money on if it's not me, the chapel, the Ridgway Hall or the town garden?
All food for thought eh?
In the meantime, the hole in my roof thanks you for all its birthday cards and looks forward to letting in more rain water for a 7th year.
Best wishes.
Langport Town Hall.
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