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TESCO have a golden opportunity here to put the Campbell's Tower to great beneficial use. There is so much potential for various use and projects.
Roof-top restaurant – what great views you would get eating your meal. The restaurant would be booked months ahead. A roof-top viewing tower – what a great office it would be to work in.
The tower could be used to site a large digital clock on all four walls for all to see 24/7 with a caption "Tesco always has time for you".
Underneath the clock a temperature reading. Beat that for an eye-catching ad. Tesco really would be the talk of the town then.
For those who say it would be a detraction to passing traffic, well as all traffic around the tower moves at a snail's pace I don't think there is anything to worry about.
I did in fact write to Tesco's head office. They appear adamant the tower is to go, because of the site plan. Am I to understand with all financial resources and computer planning software available, they can't plan the site without removing the tower. I find that hard to believe.
Well, here is a compromise, do as the Americans do, move the tower to a place on the site that would not be in the way of Tesco's site plan.
If the tower is removed, we will end up with a featureless commercial plain. A very sad day for Lynn.
T. W. EGGETT,
Alexandra Way,
Downham.
I READ with interest your article about plans to preserve Campbell's Tower. As I live nearly 200 miles away I would not presume to say yes or no. Whatever happens to Campbell's Tower, I hope it is what the people of Lynn want and not what is imposed upon them.
However, when my family and I left Lynn in 1959 to start a new life on the south coast of England, Campbell's Tower was an icon for the town.
It also represented home for us in the first few years that we were away. Every time we bought a tin of Campbell's soup we would remind each other that we knew where this was made. Every year when we returned for our summer holidays we would look out for the tower, because then we knew that we were home. Then we would sniff the air to try to work out what soup was being cooked that day.
That intense longing has gone with the passing of the years, and after marrying, raising children and watching them make their own lives, I know that Lynn is no longer my home.
However, whenever I return to Lynn I still get the longing to visit old haunts and wonder what would have been if I had never left.
When I lived in Lynn I was Linda Bullock, and my parents were Philip and Doreen.
Now I am
Linda Newell,
Emsworth.
I MARRIED in the '70s and moved away for 20 years and after long journeys home to visit my family a couple of times a year, like many others, to see the tower from the A47 from the western approach was a relief and I would open the car window to breathe in the air of The Fens.
Of course now the view is blocked by the new paper mill (not quite as iconic I have to say) but I am firmly in the camp of preservation.
Those in the opposite camp are not looking at the full picture – good or bad there's no denying it – the tower is an icon.
But use it!
I'm sure I am not the only person who has suggested a climbing wall centre (with probably the best view of the town from the top!)
We spend too much time sitting around (shall I mention summer traffic jams to the coast or indeed the wet bank holidays) and the new "leisure" plans for the Tesco site are more of the same – feed, shop and drink.
WHAT A MISSED OPPORTUNITY for the town! Come on Tesco – you too! How about being responsible for a valued contribution to others.
Stephanie Reeve
Marshland St James
What's all the fuss about Campbell's tower?
If someone were to put in planning permission to build such a structure on the Hardwick estate half the "nimbys" of King's Lynn would be up in arms petitioning the council.
If it happened to be a wind turbine the headlines would
be "K.L.A.T. Action Group Have Their Say" (King's Lynn Against Turbines).
Perhaps Tesco could stick a large turbine on top of the Campbell's tower and make it into something useful.
Mind you, having climbed up the inside of the tower in 2001, in the course of my work, it didn't look in very good nick then.
I for one say demolish it and move on.
Jon Stannard,
Stoke Ferry.
I SAY save the tower.
Every town or city has its landmarks and Campbell's tower has been a great one, alongside the South Gates.
You will always get someone like the gentleman in Friday's issue who did not have good words for Campbell's but this outnumbers all those who Campbell's have given work and food to. There is enough space for Tesco to make a marvellous store.
NAME AND
ADDRESS SUPPLIED
I HAVE been in touch with Tesco and the local council planning office
to say that our climbing wall business can build and run a climbing wall using part of Campbell's tower (depending on surveys).
I'm from Lynn originally and wouldn't want to see this important landmark disappear – I look for it every time I come back to Lynn.
I'm still waiting for a proper response from Tesco.
Get the tower listed and let is be used to
run a climbing wall business for the whole community.
GILL LOVICK,
Beacon Climbing
Centre,
Wales
I HAVE mixed feelings regarding Campbell's tower.
I cannot see anything nice about it although it has been there for
50 years.
Lynn was not Campbell's first choice for a factory outside of the USA.
Bury St Edmunds was their first choice. Because there was farm land around Bury St Edmunds the council there made the decision that the factory was too be big for the town. Lynn was Campbell's second choice.
C. SMITH,
Buckenham Drive
Stoke Ferry.
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