Twenty-nine-year-old Sam Wilmot has been lucky enough to find a passion in life, and a unique one at that. 

Since 2019, Wilmot has rated over 300 benches, scoring functional factors like back support, building material, and seat curvature, as well as more subjective, yet equally important aspects like the view and location. With each rating, he gives cool, sometimes cheeky insight into whatever bench he’s rating.

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For example, in his post about England’s National Coal Mining Museum’s wooden bench featuring Paddington Bear, which received a 6/10, Wilmot gave a brief history lesson about Paddington (a story based on a real teddy bear gifted on Christmas Eve in 1956 and inspired by wartime refugees and evacuees during WWII) and explained that the statue was there to promote the latest Paddington movie. He also noted that having Paddington’s cheerful presence on the bench raised its overall score “considerably.” 

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Or this “solid, unyielding and strong” stone bench, which was made in dedication to the men sent off to fight in the Great War, seven of whom were killed in the battle. This bench also got........

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