Fed-up neighbors transform derelict bus depot into stunning community landmark
A rundown bus shelter has been radically transformed — complete with hanging baskets, art, books and chandelier — after a local pub owner couldn't stand the "ugly and shabby" situation any longer.Molly Thompson, 27, has owned the 600-year-old Woolpack pub in Chilham, Kent, for several years.For some time, a rundown and disused bus shelter blighted the street right outside her pub — until she couldn't take it any longer.STOMACH BUGS SURGING AS DOCTORS SAY CERTAIN TRAVEL ESSENTIALS COULD SAVE YOUR TRIP Thompson secured council permission before raising the funds to turn the shelter from shabby to chic."I live here, I’ve got my dog Wallace, and every day I’d walk past that bus stop," Thompson of the United Kingdom told news agency SWNS."It took me a year since moving here, and I thought it was a derelict building, an ugly and shabby sort of thing. We had some crazy ideas at first, but we also want[ed] to keep an aesthetic for the village."We thought of a few ideas," she went on.
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A rundown bus shelter has been radically transformed — complete with hanging baskets, art, books and chandelier — after a local pub owner couldn't stand the "ugly and shabby" situation any longer.Molly Thompson, 27, has owned the 600-year-old Woolpack pub in Chilham, Kent, for several years.For some time, a rundown and disused bus shelter blighted the street right outside her pub — until she couldn't take it any longer.STOMACH BUGS SURGING AS DOCTORS SAY CERTAIN TRAVEL ESSENTIALS COULD SAVE YOUR TRIP Thompson secured council permission before raising the funds to turn the shelter from shabby to chic."I live here, I’ve got my dog Wallace, and every day I’d walk past that bus stop," Thompson of the United Kingdom told news agency SWNS."It took me a year since moving here, and I thought it was a derelict building, an ugly and shabby sort of thing. We had some crazy ideas at first, but we also want[ed] to keep an aesthetic for the village."We thought of a few ideas," she went on. "We started fundraising at the Woolpack and asking people for donations, which we did a raffle for. We had to put in ourselves, of course, from the Woolpack — but a lot has been donated from the village," she said.TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZFor example, "we had an anonymous envelope delivered with £100," or about $134 U.S.
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- A rundown bus shelter has been radically transformed — complete with hanging baskets, art, books and chandelier — after a local pub owner couldn't stand the "ugly and shabby" situation any longer.Molly Thompson, 27, has owned the 600-year-old Woolpack pub in Chilham, Kent, for several years.For some time, a rundown and disused bus shelter blighted the street right outside her pub — until she couldn't take it any longer.STOMACH BUGS SURGING AS DOCTORS SAY CERTAIN TRAVEL ESSENTIALS COULD SAVE YOUR TRIP Thompson secured council permission before raising the funds to turn the shelter from shabby to chic."I live here, I’ve got my dog Wallace, and every day I’d walk past that bus stop," Thompson of the United Kingdom told news agency SWNS."It took me a year since moving here, and I thought it was a derelict building, an ugly and shabby sort of thing. We had some crazy ideas at first, but we also want[ed] to keep an aesthetic for the village."We thought of a few ideas," she went on.
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