{"id":1003,"date":"2025-05-03T15:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2025-05-03T15:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T15:10:34","slug":"february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoyed a pleasant pause on the new bench in the Recreation Ground, dedicated to my parents David and Chryssie.\u00a0 A quiet winter day, with just a few dogs out walking their owners.\u00a0 What a lovely place to sit and contemplate the world!\u00a0 Thank you to the Parish Council for arranging the purchase, the plaque, and the siting of this fine new bench.<\/p>\n<p>It is almost 100 years since my great-grandfather Victor opened the Rec.\u00a0 The Hertfordshire Express of May 29<sup>th<\/sup> 1929 records that in a speech in front of a Bank Holiday crowd of over 2,000, he \u201choped that the future of the ground would be as cloudless as the sky was that day.\u201d\u00a0 The chairman of the Parish Council, Mr. T. Lester Sayer, \u201cthanked Lord Lytton for his gift.\u00a0 It was (he said) one of the finest, if not the finest, recreation grounds in that party of the country.\u201d\u00a0 I do hope \u2018party of the country\u2019 is not a newspaper misprint, and either the chairman\u2019s Freudian slip that fete day, or otherwise a charming 1920s expression!<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sayer continued that he was \u201cpleased to say that the school authorities had arranged to make full use of the ground for both boys and girls.\u00a0 One had (he said) only to look around the ground to realise the immense benefit it would at once be to Knebworth.\u00a0 Not many of them could wait to see what it would mean to Knebworth in 50 years\u2019 time: but looking forward even ten years, and with a speck of imagination one must see that that day was a great day for Knebworth.\u201d \u00a0Hear, hear, I say\u2026 from a winter\u2019s day almost 100 years on.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Lytton Cobbold<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/henrycobboldkh\">@HenryCobboldKH<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/David-Chryssies-bench.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-1004 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/David-Chryssies-bench-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/David-Chryssies-bench-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/David-Chryssies-bench-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/David-Chryssies-bench-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/David-Chryssies-bench-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/David-Chryssies-bench.jpg 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/480;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoyed a pleasant pause on the new bench in the Recreation Ground, dedicated to my parents David and Chryssie.\u00a0 A quiet winter day, with just a few dogs out walking their owners.\u00a0 What a lovely place to sit and contemplate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=1003\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-25"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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