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Rose White was not pleased when plans were announced for a new sculpture in Didcot and she said the money should be spent on toilets instead.
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A £2,400 giant metal hoop by Oxfordshire artist Peter Fink was due to be erected in the centre of Didcot in March 1983 to crown the redevelopment of the area's shops.
Retired shop assistant Rose White had other ideas, and felt the money would be better spent on new public lavatories because the existing ones were 'disgusting'.
She collected 200 signatures for a petition calling on South Oxfordshire District Council to make the change.
An existing toilet block in Broadway had no locks on the doors and chipped and damaged urinals.
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Not everyone agreed with Mrs White, however.
At the time the Oxford Mail spoke to John Keen who was annoyed it was being presented as a choice between toilets or the sculpture.
"They are nothing to do with each other," he told our reporter.
In the end, the artwork went ahead.
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