On occasion my travel plans have been thwarted. Mostly this is due to a lack of time travel: my top holiday destinations no longer exist. Some were missed out on by a whisker. Born in 1990 I was too young to travel behind the Iron Curtain; seeing my family in
Another thought provoking article, which needs to finds its way onto bigger sites.
The pub could be undergoing a renaissance, the the same way public gatherings have added so much to policy as well as discourse over the past thousand years or so.
Our village has a single pub, and I don't frequent it often. It has failed multiple times, but now it has attracted a new crowd who seem to be happy turning up not only at weekends or major sporting events on TV, but through the week as well. Just as it functioned in the past century. The pub just might become the start of a new form of government, by re-visiting the way things were done in the past.
As for the developers - call them out. Frauds.
They could have done this destruction above board, but decided to do it in a very amateur way indeed. I wonder what promises were made in the outline planning permission?
I recall in another village the destruction of an 1100 year old tythe barn at 11:00pm on a Friday night, to beat the listing date. As the listing came into force at mid-night, nothing remained - no walls, no listing. That was done by the local and district council, on a vanity project which has now... been flattened. The councillors who did this have now been forgotten.
Thank you, Andrew. Apologies for the slow response.
The amount of architectural damage across the country in the last 70 years has been astounding. Even in my crappy Midlands town there are buildings I remember from my childhood which have been flattened to make way for soulless, glass boxes. The rate of them being pulled down increased when the council started charging half rates on occupied buildings, but nothing if they were just levelled. Talk about perverse incentives.
North Korea, goodness, that was audacious. It is infuriating when the owners, those with a duty of care for a beautiful property, have the "misfortune" to see it destroyed in a terrible accident. I feel the same way when a lovely old tree is felled inspite of a preservation order. And there never seems to be any comeback. I'll confess I have no strong feelings about pubs myself but my husband loved them. Not that he frequented them particularly often, just spending the occasional afternoon quietly supping with his newspaper. We lived in a rural area and our two faves which were within walking distance succombed not long after the 2001 F&M outbreak resulted in some Whitehall mandarin deciding ramblers posed a major threat and making footpaths off limits
A major source of income evaporated and never returned to the same levels. You make a good point that places where people can interact face-to-face will not be loved by HMG. Sounds like a good reason to go. And as my husband would say, "It never rains in a pub."
Your husband is clearly a wise man. It's sad what is done in the name of safetyism. Few in Whitehall will understand - the pubs in SW1 remaining viable through even the most challenging period - the effect that even small adjustments can have on just-about-managing enterprises out in the sticks.
Another thought provoking article, which needs to finds its way onto bigger sites.
The pub could be undergoing a renaissance, the the same way public gatherings have added so much to policy as well as discourse over the past thousand years or so.
Our village has a single pub, and I don't frequent it often. It has failed multiple times, but now it has attracted a new crowd who seem to be happy turning up not only at weekends or major sporting events on TV, but through the week as well. Just as it functioned in the past century. The pub just might become the start of a new form of government, by re-visiting the way things were done in the past.
As for the developers - call them out. Frauds.
They could have done this destruction above board, but decided to do it in a very amateur way indeed. I wonder what promises were made in the outline planning permission?
I recall in another village the destruction of an 1100 year old tythe barn at 11:00pm on a Friday night, to beat the listing date. As the listing came into force at mid-night, nothing remained - no walls, no listing. That was done by the local and district council, on a vanity project which has now... been flattened. The councillors who did this have now been forgotten.
Thank you, Andrew. Apologies for the slow response.
The amount of architectural damage across the country in the last 70 years has been astounding. Even in my crappy Midlands town there are buildings I remember from my childhood which have been flattened to make way for soulless, glass boxes. The rate of them being pulled down increased when the council started charging half rates on occupied buildings, but nothing if they were just levelled. Talk about perverse incentives.
North Korea, goodness, that was audacious. It is infuriating when the owners, those with a duty of care for a beautiful property, have the "misfortune" to see it destroyed in a terrible accident. I feel the same way when a lovely old tree is felled inspite of a preservation order. And there never seems to be any comeback. I'll confess I have no strong feelings about pubs myself but my husband loved them. Not that he frequented them particularly often, just spending the occasional afternoon quietly supping with his newspaper. We lived in a rural area and our two faves which were within walking distance succombed not long after the 2001 F&M outbreak resulted in some Whitehall mandarin deciding ramblers posed a major threat and making footpaths off limits
A major source of income evaporated and never returned to the same levels. You make a good point that places where people can interact face-to-face will not be loved by HMG. Sounds like a good reason to go. And as my husband would say, "It never rains in a pub."
Your husband is clearly a wise man. It's sad what is done in the name of safetyism. Few in Whitehall will understand - the pubs in SW1 remaining viable through even the most challenging period - the effect that even small adjustments can have on just-about-managing enterprises out in the sticks.