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Today is Friday, 3 July, 2009. |
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Welcome to the Ware Society
We invite you to join THE WARE SOCIETY. We hope you will become a member, because in these days of heavy pressure on our town from the developers it is more than ever necessary that ordinary people should have a say in how their enviromnent is affected by developers and planners. The Ware Society is a body which brings together the views of ordinary people and presents them forcefully to the local councils.
WARE IS A UNIQUE ENVIRONMENT. People settled here for thousands of years before the Romans came. Ware became an important Roman settlement, later it was a thriving Saxon and Medieval town and later still it became the premier malting centre of England. Much of this history has survived in the fascinating buildings of the town - St Mary's Church, Place House, the old maltings, the gazebos and nearly all of the buildings in the High Street which are timber-framed behind their later brick facades. But Ware is not just buildings. It has a special sense of community and is one of the friendliest towns in this part of England.
THE WARE SOCIETY has an outstanding record in fighting to preserve the special character of our town. We campaigned successfully against the Relief Road (an "urban motorway" which would have cut the town in two), against demolition of the station, against disposal of The Priory and against massive development along the riverside overshadowing the gazebos. We initiated and partly funded restoration of the gazebos and of John Scott's 18th century grotto. We brought the Bluecoat Boy statues back to Ware, were co-founders of the Ware Museum and have carried out many small-scale improvements and planting schemes throughout the town.
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