ocifant
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Re: ..Priddy Henges....
Jun 21, 2011, 14:40
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Some updated aerial photos would be useful too - I know the Captain has some ground level photos, but an updated air shot would easily show the true effect and extent of any damage.
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theCaptain
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Re: ..Priddy Henges....
Jun 21, 2011, 15:29
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Aerial pictures would of course enable us to all see just what has happened. I could only take pictures from ground level on long zoom, and made a point of keeping well out of the field which had been flattened, and on the public road or the other landowners fields where I had been given permission to wander. I thought it would be perhaps a bit controversial to blatantly walk into the bulldozed field and start taking pictures, a field I have been in many times in the past. I didn't even climb on the gate to get a better view! Perhaps it was cowardly, but I didn't want any trouble with a rich landowner!
By the way, the hunt were the previous owners of the land, and have now moved away, so its nothing to do with them, as some seem to be thinking.
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ocifant
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Re: ..Priddy Henges....
Jun 21, 2011, 19:22
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No criticism implied - I think it's brilliant you got the pictures you did!
Just saying, if only we knew someone with an aircraft in the area...
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theCaptain
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Re: ..Priddy Henges....
Jun 21, 2011, 22:29
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never considered that to be a criticism, nor offence taken. I was just excusing myself for chickening out of jumping the gate into the flattened field!
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ocifant
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Re: ..Priddy Henges....
Jun 22, 2011, 05:42
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Fair do's :-) It's easy to be misinterpreted on these boards sometimes...
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postman
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Re: ..Priddy Henges....
Jun 22, 2011, 08:55
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I dont believe it
I was there just last November and all seemed to be as it should.
But then they bulldozed it flat?
(In my most exasperated Victor Meldrew voice) I Dont Believe it !!!
They must have known what they were doing surely no-ones that ignorant.
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Sanctuary
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Re: ..Priddy Henges....
Jun 22, 2011, 09:24
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postman wrote: I dont believe it
I was there just last November and all seemed to be as it should.
But then they bulldozed it flat?
(In my most exasperated Victor Meldrew voice) I Dont Believe it !!!
They must have known what they were doing surely no-ones that ignorant.
Farmers have been felling protected trees and removing hedgerows for years taking the view that once they've done it there's not much anyone can do about it but fine them or more often then not just warn them of their future behaviour when they plead ignorance! You can't exactly put them back again afterwards can you so they walk away smiling the bastards!
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nigelswift
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Re: ..Priddy Henges....
Jun 22, 2011, 09:34
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Well in the case of a listed building they DO sometimes force them to rebuild it, at huge cost. Making the culprit pay for every penny of a replica wouldn't put the henge back, but it would be something better than leaving it flat. And if EH were deliberately nit-picky and asked for it to be precisely to the contours it used to be, no argument and no negotiation, it might cost £100K to do - i.e. far more than the maximum available fine, which would be satisfying.
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theCaptain
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Re: ..Priddy Henges....
Jun 22, 2011, 16:08
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Some interesting discussion on this matter on the ukcaving.com discussion boards.
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Rhiannon
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Re: ..Priddy Henges....
Jun 23, 2011, 06:35
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So Nigel are you going to tell us what you saw??
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