BURNING ISSUE: Beacons were lit around the country for the Queen’s 90th birthday in 2016. Carlisle’s then mayor Stephen Layden lit the beacon on Victoria Lawns in Bitts Park as the statue of Queen Victoria watched over the ceremony
ON BBC Radio Cumbria on January 7 I heard Cllr Stephen Higgs’s plans for the Queen’s Jubilee in June.
These include a beacon (bonfire or so) in Bitts Park near the Queen Victoria statue. What a daft place!
Beacons are meant to be visible from far and wide, up on the hills, not down on the level, hidden by trees and buildings.
Put it up at Stanwix, which is where the Roman Wall’s cavalry depot was, Petriana, at the top of Stanwix Bank/Rickerby Park).
Plenty more will see it there. Or have a Bitts bonfire – but don’t call it a beacon.
Jeremy Godwin
Drovers Lane, Penrith
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