Intruders – and it must have taken some work – succeeded in detaching one of the security fence palings at the top, so that it could be displaced as shown. It’s now been repaired, and the top of the fence garnished with climbing rose prunings. It was the fence adjoining Llandaff Fields Park, near where it meets the listed old wall.
Doors had been forced on nearby sheds recently, and this would explain that. It doesn’t look as though this has been done for any length of time though, the damaged metalwork was still bright.
It solves another mystery too. A few days ago, a gardener messaged a PPAA Committee member to ask if his dog had been seen, having “run through the metal fence”. It was wrongly assumed that it must have been a small dog, or somewhere else, as the fact of the fence’s having been damaged wasn’t mentioned.
In a way it’s encouraging, in that the recent improvements to gate and hedge security, along with the wall repair, seem to have forced intruders to take ever more laborious action to get in.
Let’s hope that they’re too bored to go through it all again this time.
PPA Website Team.
