Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District
THE WHOLE VILLAGE WAS PEPPERED WITH THEM
The elephants got people talking and the reaction was positive.
“Jill wanted to create a bit of magic and that is what it achieved, it worked. Everyone loved it, apart from one man who threw some of the elephants in the bin,” said Anni Bales, one of Jill’s friends.
Nicola Green, landlady at the Woolpack Inn, arrived for work at around 6am to find dozens of the figurines scattered around the pub garden.
She checked her CCTV and discovered that a group of unknown people had been secretly placing the elephants around the village at about 2am.
She said: “As I came to work we saw two or three little things out the front, which we thought was rubbish that somebody had left.
“When we walked round the corner, the whole village was just peppered with elephants. brass elephants, elephant money boxes, toy elephants.
“They were just everywhere, on lamp posts, picnic tables, doorways, driveways, and nobody knows where they came from.
“People were saying all sorts of things because the castle has the elephant house and there were actually elephants at the castle.”
Cisca Perrett lives in the village. She said: “I woke up with this message on my phone saying ‘have you seen the elephants walking around Chilham’ which made me jump out of bed.
“I have to walk though the church yard to get to the square and I didn’t know what to expect.
“The first thing I saw was the two cars - the roofs were covered with these creatures, they were just everywhere. “I think it’s just a brilliant idea. “Perhaps because it’s elephant day or the fact we’ve got the elephant house in the village, somebody must have made a connection and made a very creative solution.”