Dear Sir, I would like to thank the unknown citizens of Abbots Langley who helped me when I tripped over in Abbots Langley High Street in January badly cutting my knee and finger. I was walking back from Budgen‘s when my
foot caught the cover of a water stopcock and meter between The Craft Tub and the bus stop. It must have been slightly raised as all I remember is my foot against it kicking it up before tripping over it. I landed heavily on the ground. This being Abbots Langley, where nobody in trouble is ignored, I was surrounded by several people including a man with a dog and the lady from the craft shop almost as soon as I hit the ground. How many others were there too I don't know as I was rather dazed. Somebody ran down the road to the doctor‘s surgery to get help and the lady from the craft shop lifted me up and sat me down on the bus shelter bench to recover my breath and senses. Before I knew it a doctor had arrived. She
checked me over and then the duty doctor turned up in his car having been alerted to the problem!
By now I had recovered enough to stand up and explain what had happened and the doctor decided no further action was required other than to put a note on my patient record. By now everybody who helped was slipping
away and the man with the dog had replaced the metal cover before anybody fell over it or down the hole. Living only 100 yards away I managed to make my own way home but was unable to say thank you to all those who helped as they had all gone. I really am most grateful to them and glad that
I live in Abbots Langley where people are only too willing to get involved and help those in need. Only recently I read of somebody who collapsed on a station platform in London and everybody stepped over him. I complained to the water company as the
cover must have been raised up but I was told that the meter hadn‘t been read for several weeks and so it is unlikely the cover had been raised since then as somebody else would have tripped over it long before. So whether somebody had turned the water off over Christmas or had tampered with the cover we shall never know. But the water company did send flowers and my cuts and bruises have just about healed at long last. So I would appreciate it if I could say thanks through your magazine as I don‘t know any other way of doing it and I'm sure the people involved all read My Abbots New and will know who they are.
June Coombs, Abbots Langley
Dear Sir, You recently published an article regarding the state of the green outside Tanners Wood School due to parents churning up the grass with their cars. This problem is just as bad along Hazelwood
Lane between The Fairway and School Mead where many residents have parking areas outside their houses but have not paid for access and curbs to be dropped meaning they go across the grass (or mud) to park. Why aren‘t the parish council taking action
against these homeowners as the grass is almost non existent outside some homes and when it rains its a mud bath?
Mark, via email Email your letters to
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