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CHAPTER TWELVE
“THE HOOPS WE JUMPED THROUGH TO OPEN”
Once we had decided to actually go ahead with the project to create a visitor centre based
around horses we began to find who our “friends “really were.
Ebony, right with Ruth and Sam with me, the day they came to live at Northcote after
leaving Young's Brewery in Wandsworth. Early in 1988.
Firstly, a planning application had to be submitted for change of use at Northcote.
I had been a local Parish Councillor for about five years by this time. My colleagues were
not convinced it was a good idea. All kinds of stupid objections were raised locally and at
the District Council.
Of course nobody actually confronted us with their suggestions, objections, questions or
queries. They just assumed this and assumed that and consequently created a huge
problem that took us ages to sort.
We had help from some official sources that existed to help develop and promote different
ideas in the Countryside, but it was a friend from the past who was to come to our help
