Here is a picture of a man who looks happy. Actually, he is sad. Beris Blake, a retired hospital porter, sculpts characters and creatures out of wood in his garden shed. He is standing outside Nunhead Community Centre which last weekend hosted the Nunhead Open. He really enjoyed exhibiting his work at the Open but, like the rest of us, he is saddened that after the show the community centre will be padlocked, its shutters pulled down. The same thing happened last year. Opened for a weekend and then closed for an entire year.
The council deems the building unfit for purpose, and it is. They promise to construct a new building but the community loves this one. Yes, it needs tlc: surely far cheaper than the cost of a new building which, at the rate things are going, resembles nothing so much as pie in the sky.
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