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Re: 11 open questions for EH
Jun 06, 2007, 17:39
Littlestone wrote:
...EH work with the school is the result of other pressures and criticisms that rightly indicated that more work had to be done to include the locals...


With the very greatest respect VBB (and I do genuinely mean that) why do English Heritage believe that more work had to be done to include the locals? Do the locals have more right to voice their opinion on the future of Silbury than other concerned, and if I may say so, more relevant bodies in this country and abroad? Sorry, I do not think so. English Heritage are playing to the local gallery and are fooling no-one on the international stage. The locals have their village, let them tend to their village while the world tends (or tries to tend) to the correct preservation of this world famous monument.


Totally correct. Especially as 'locals' nowadays are merely transient, up-and-away in a few years, and are hardly aware of their surroundings. I doubt they are really bothered if they don't get their kids, who will be living elsewhere by the time they go to college, a little piece of intrusive history.

This is so similar to London councils, stepping over those in real need to pay homage to militant minority groups because it's so politically correct to do so. Forget the homeless, there's a single-mother-lesbian-football club that needs funding!
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