A well-known Derbyshire tourist town is on the verge of losing one of its biggest attractions - thousands of love locks attached to one of its river bridges.
Love locks started to appear on the Weir Bridge in Bakewell in 2012 and now both sides of the footbridge are covered in locks of all shapes and sizes.
One of its biggest attractions? Decide for yourself.
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I've seen this modern obsession in France & Germany too.
Public expressions of love (or grief, especially about people like Diana Spencer, completely unknown to the griever), have increased in line with the rise of the online 'hurt feelings' troops. The 'Me me me' generation live their petty little lives with their emotions on the outside. Ghastly and desecrating a beauty spot.
Some good Chubb fishing there, by the looks of it. The bridge at Yale Uni must be amazing, though.
These enthusiasms come and go. Padlocks on bridges is little different from throwing coins in a well or fountain (or fishtank for goodness sake). Each would seem daft to anyone not caught up in the enthusiasms.
But I think too that modern life strips away the opportunities for enthusiasms. How many people nowadays truly worry about spilling salt or breaking mirrors? And how many go on to seize any of the few opportunities to indulge? I expect that Wokeness is one of these emotional enthusiasms too, but I hope it will lose its appeal, just like the enthusiasm for involuntary Euthanasia, Prohibition and 'Reds under the Bed'.
Life is a performance art.
Is this a modern extension of the old carving a heart with initials on a tree, as with all else today that would not be enough, carve the initials, annual vigil with faux tears and tea candles and ultimately sacrificing the tree by burning it to the ground whilst chanting black lives matter.
I saw somewhere that it originated in China, as most things do these days.............
Ed - it is ghastly and horribly childish.
Sam - lots of prawns around too. Stand on the bridge and you get a Birdseye view.
DJ - modern life seems to offer opportunities for enthusiasms, but somehow the motives have been taken over by organisations of one kind or another.
Wiggia - I bet most of the padlocks originate in China too.
I had visions of locks of hair entwined around the bridge. How disappointing to discover these ugly contraptions more suited to a chastity belt.
Andy - locks of hair would at least be personal. Nesting birds could help themselves too.
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