Thursday 18th April 2013
Yesterday (Wednesday 17th April 2013) this sign (pictured)
was erected on the playing field
(Kingdown School Sports Field / St. George’s Playing Field)
between
Boreham Field and Boreham Crossroads, Warminster.
The greater part of the field is used by Kingdown School
for football, rugby, athletics and sorts’ days.
And the north-east corner is used occasionally by
St. George’s School.
The field has also long been used by local people for exercise,
dog walking, kite flying, practising golf and archery,
racing model cars, drone flying, frisbee fun, sunbathing and
picnicking, and by children from nearby residential estates
and streets for football and games.
When it snows, the slope in the south-east corner
of the field is used by young people for tobogganing
or riding down on sleighs or on large pieces of plastic
or plastic bags.
Local teams play football matches here at weekends, too.
And the Wiltshire Air Ambulance (helicopter) has landed on
the field many times during local medical emergencies, and
the field is sometimes used to practice night landings in the dark.
The sign bears the logo of Kingdown School
and the school’s motto: Believe Aspire Achieve.
The wording on the sign reads:
“Kingdown School Field.
You are welcome to use the school field
when not in use by Kingdown
subject to the following strict conditions:
All persons use the field at their own risk.
Kingdown School does not assume responsibility
for any criminal actions committed by
users of the field.
Improper conduct, or creating a public
disturbance of any kind, is prohibited.
Please respect local residents’ rights
to a peaceful and safe environment.
This field is a school facility, intending for
the education of children.
Please help us to keep this site
in good condition.
The use of the field for playing or practising
golf is strictly prohibited.
Kingdown school and its employees cannot
accept responsibility or liability for any claim,
loss or damage whatsoever which may arise
resulting from the use of this site, except
so far as provided by statute.
Kingdown School, Woodcock Road, Warminster,
BA12 9DR. Telephone 01985 215551
email: info@kingdown.wilts.sch.uk
Editor’s note:
The sign in these photographs was one of two such signs
(both the same in appearance and wording)
erected on the field (the other one was positioned
near the gated entrance off Boreham Field).
The signs were short-lived. Not long after being
erected someone or some persons with vandalism
in mind removed the signs from the poles and
threw the signs into the bushes and long grass
on the border of the field.