TWO places, one a former village now part of Derby, have been in the Telegraph – one concerning a "lost" pub and the other a street water slide.
This slide in Mickleover, according to a local councillor, was created to bring residents together, as they seem to have the same problems of socialising with their neighbours as one does in less select areas of Derby.
Only time will tell if this water slide works to cure this apathy in the leafy suburbs of Mickleover. If it does, can we all have one fitted in our neighbourhoods? What I found reckless was that our supposedly hard-pressed firemen agreed to nip out and refresh the slide with water to keep it slippery. What if there had been a real emergency?
There are easier ways for a community to keep together without living in each other's pockets, like parks and community centres. Everybody can attend these, as opposed to hand-picked locals who were lucky enough to use the slide.
As for the lost pub in Findern village to be turned into a funeral directors, what does that possibly tell you about this small one-pub village which has a pub no more?
Joe Coleman
Tewkesbury Crescent
Chaddesden
