Thatcham votes for Freedom of Town inscription

The Millennium Monument in the Broadway will be marked to remember The Freedom of the Town honour

THATCHAM Town Council has agreed to spend more than £300 on engraving a town centre monument.

The council's finance and general purposes committee discussed at a meeting last night (Monday) whether to spend £335 on engraving the Millennium Monument in the Broadway.

Town Mayor, Lee Dillon, said that if the council did not use the Millennium Monument it would lose its significance.

He said: "If we can record it there then more people will be aware it happened."

All councillors voted in favour of inscribing the monument.

The inscription will commemorate the Freedom of the Town which the council granted to The Royal School of Military Survey, based at Denison Barracks, Hermitage in July.

The honour was granted in recognition, nationally and internationally, of the contribution that the military school had made to the education and training of defence personnel and the close relationship which has existed between it, the Corps of Royal Engineers at Denison Barracks and the residents of Thatcham for more than 60 years.

The honorary freedom meant that the school has the right, honour and distinction of marching through the streets of the town on all ceremonial occasions with colours flying, bands playing, drums beating and bayonets fixed.