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Please feel free to express your feelings below, but try to keep it polite!
It seems that the guestbook software is throwing a few glitches. We've had a few reports of random "permanent bannings" and posts disappearing. Please accept our apologies if either of these happen to you and, if you want to enter a message but it won't allow you, feel free to email your message and the name / location you'd like put to the email on the home-page
We've found that the vast majority of Ashtead residents are overwhelmingly supportive of SSAFA, Headley Court, the Armed Forces and our campaign. The 90 or so objectors, and their attitudes, do not represent most Ashtead residents from everything we've seen. Please, in thanks to all those people, bear that in mind when posting!
Thank you to everyone who's helped achieve this wonderful result. We've known from the outset that the concerns raised were misplaced. SSAFA and the families concerned will now have the chance to prove that. We know they'll be more than equal to the task.
Oh, and thanks for all the fish
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| Name: Rob Nesbitt From: Barry, South Wales E-mail: nospam@nospam.com |
Residents of Grays Lane but not of this planet eh! Good god,you people and I use that term very loosely ought to be ashamed to be categorised as human beings. Being villified should must come as no shock to you after the most obscene road you have taken, denying our servicemen and women their basic rights of you giving them warmth,love, support,understanding,a welcome and a place to TRY and recover their place back in society and to become "whole " again in mind if not in body. If you need to be isolated and you surely do find an island somewhere devoid of any life whatsoever..
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| Name: Piers From: Jersey |
I am sad, I am angry, I am ashamed. The reaction of the residents of Grays Lane is both excessive and unreasonable. The freedoms and wealth that they now enjoy have been in part gained through the blood of British servicemen at home and abroad over many decades. One could believe these are the sort of people who save their Poppy Appeal poppies for use year after year, if indeed they ever donate to acknowledge the sacrifices made for them and their country. Thank God I was able to leave leafy Surrey for a place where charity still exists and prospers.
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| Name: Andrew Henson From: Ashtead |
Good luck with your project. It is about time we provided these facilites for our service men and women in this country. Ashtead should be proud to have such a facility within it's community.
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| Name: Davina From: Ireland E-mail: nospam@nospam.com |
I have been a patient at Headley Court for a relatively minor issue when I saw those around me, on my course and others who were severely disabled and in cases lucky to be alive. Headley Court is a truely amazing facility and although they can provide top class Medical and Rehabilitation there is an element of all treatment that requires your nearest and dearest support. Headley is reasonably remotely located and difficult to access from the majority of our military bases - Having a facility were families can be nearby to help certainly with the positive menatl rehabilitation is a vital necessity in many cases. Grays Lane will permit that and I am ashamed and quite disgusted at those who have tried to stop its progress. They should only hope and pray that they are never in a position like the many families whose lives get turned upside down but maybe then they will understand why this facility is so important
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| Name: Mark Smith From: Cambridge E-mail: nospam@nospam.com |
To all the folks on Blue team and to all who have supported this campaign, your fantastic. It makes me feel proud that we still have people that can put the 'Great', back into Britain again. It,s just a shame that there are people out there who seem to value the afor mentioned alot less. Shame on those residents at Grays lane who have objected.
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| Name: Alison Dobson From: Bromsgrove Worcs E-mail: nospam@nospam.com |
My husband left the Army 2 years ago after 29 years service there but for the grace of God goes he. Forces families are left to cope in varying situations and do so. When your husband, son or brother sister wife or daughter has been injured in the course of duty they deserve the best as do you. Massess of research indicates recovery from injury or illness is quicker if you are supported by colleagues friends and loving family. Let it be so and let the ignorant residents visit Headley court and then decide if they wish to continue with their ignorant selfish campaign. 
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| Name: Dave Roden From: Esbjerg, Denmark |
It was very depressing hearing about the objections of the residents nearby - people who became rich enough to own their exclusive homes on the backs of the stability and security provided by the sacrifices of the patients of Headly Court. Saddness fills my heart - what happened to the country of my birth? What happened to the "blitz spirit" and for being on "the underdogs" side? A land fit for heroes? - doesn't fit anymore. Admin reply: Dave, the spirit of "your" land is still burning strong. Whether from Ashtead, elsewhere in the UK, or even Denmark, every voice raised in support is the voice of that spirit.
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| Name: Charmian & Angwin Marples From: South Oxfordshire E-mail: nospam@nospam.com |
We were appalled and ashamed to read of the self-obsessed and misinformed reactions of those inhabitants of Ashtead who raised objections to the use of the house in Grays Lane for the families of severely injured servicemen being cared for at Henley Court. What do these neighbours think is going to happen there? All-night raves? Provocative demonstrations? Turning the house over to delinquent teen-agers? My guess is that it will be one of the quietest houses in the locality and, we hope, an oasis of calm and healing. Those who stay there will have already suffered heartbreak and trauma beyond anything thattheir blinkered neighbours are likely to be able to comprehend. Were it possible, I would be honoured and proud to live in close proximity to such brave people. Shame on you, those who have raised objections; all right-minded people from Ashtead and elsewhere will despise your reaction. Charmian and Angwin Marples.
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| Name: Sharpe's Rifleman |
To Lisa of Ashtead. Your concerns are valid and reasonable, however.... The SSAFA house although able to accomodate up to 6 guests at a time (any extra would be accompanying children) wouldn't neccesarily deal with 6 cars at a time, or even 4. Some of these people will be coming from far and wide. It may be that many arrive by train or plane. SSAFA have ALREADY indicated that they will put on a mini-bus 3 times a day. SSAFA would probably also arrange the pick up and drop off of familes (so the public transport issue is negated also). In comparison to a large, grown up family with a car each, I would argue the SSAFA house will reduce traffic on the street. If I recall correctly, parking space at Headley Court is limited, so it makes sense that a fleet of cars doesn't drive from Ashtead to Headley. Grays Lane will not be affected as much as is believed. With wild accuasations of 20 odd vehicles a day arriving at 36. Please ask any questions you wish on this guestbook, you WILL receive honest and straight answers.
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| Name: Les Kirby From: Cambridge |
My father is ex forces and it worries me at how the coutry is turning so selfish.
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