The Voice of Spalding and South Holland
Roger Nix receives retirement gifts from Ayscoughfee Bowls Club, presented by its youngest member Harry Mycock. Photo (NIKKI GRIFFIN): VNG310714-15
A park attendant who served Ayscoughfee Gardens for 25 years has retired with more than a tinge of sadness.
Roger Nix (65) enjoyed his time at the Spalding park, but felt forced to take retirement earlier than he had hoped because of the stress brought on by anti-social behaviour which has blighted the place.
He said: “There are five acres of gardens and I enjoyed working out in the open. In the summer it was a totally different place to the winter. The job offered variety and the chance to meet people.”
He added: “I’m sorry to leave the job after 25 years. I had intended to stay on until the end of the bowls season but I couldn’t cope with the anti-social behaviour any more.”
One of the biggest changes to the gardens in Roger’s time was the replacement of a bowls green with the Peace Garden in 1995.
Ayscoughfee Bowls Club presented him with a tankard and a thermometer.
Nigel Chapman is quite right the louts who forced Mr Nix to retire should be well and truly ashamed of themselves. They won’t be though as their moral values are obviously made of s**t.
Can well and truly empathise with Mr Nix, it must have been soul destroying to see his work place decline into such an area. He needs to take away with him we all appreciated his hard work and he did a brilliant job. It’s his turn now to relax and let someone else deal with the louts.
Well done to Inspector Tyner for taking a tough stand on the problem and implementing the dispersal order, it’s just a shame it came too late for Mr Nix, he must have been at the end of his tether for a considerable amount of time.
Nice to see the bowls club showing their appreciation to him hope SHDC do the same.