This bridge is to be demolished!

I agree with you Stephanie, far too much of our history is just trampled over and/or demolished by the 'do-gooders' in our community, without giving thought for the past or the work involved. I have exactly the same problem here in Oxford re the C S Lewis Reserve so-called, but not to detract from your thread and that of Mark Corby, we need to kick up a fuss over this, and now! Well done for contacting Mark and setting up this thread.

I guess the £1 price tag is just to get the local council off the hook for insurance and maintainence bill lol! The only business to buy it would be a scrap metal company but it would cost too much to demolish it. Maybe the council hope English Heritage or some other body will fund it. I think it should be made a listed building and the council be made to keep it in good repair! (I wonder what the council would have done if it was owned privately Lol!

Amen to that! The same thing is happening in the States as well, particularly when it comes to Civil War battlefield preservation. Walmart has just won a "battle" (read "foregone conclusion") to place one of it's stores next to a portion of the Wilderness battlefield in Virginia. I find it so offensive that these commercial giants see fit to ruin the landscapes over which so many good men, North and South, fought and died! My g-g-grandfather, who fought at the Wilderness and nearby Cold Harbor with the 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters (Army of Northern Virginia) is probably at this moment rolling in his grave!

Edited by: Rob Faleer at:6th November 2009 14:00

As a Virginia resident not very far from the area of which you speak, I agree wholeheartedly with you.  I mean, honestly, don't we have enough Walmarts already?  And if we must have yet another, why not buy some vacant lot that has no historic significance or asthetic appeal on its own?  Perhaps those who fought and died in the adjacent battlefield will haunt the new store.  That would make a change. 

Is that a Rebel yell I hear?

Not necessarily!  I was born and grew up in the South, but am not a Rebel in this sense of the word.  There were "Yankees" that fought and died there too.  I just hate seeing beautiful countryside destroyed for commercial profiteering.

Oh, I see what you mean!  Barbara's morning fog has lifted.  For sure, an other-worldly Rebel yell would make more of an impact!

Being from Georgia(pronounced,jo ja),i have always hated seeing history being trampled,Atlanta lost some of the most beautiful pre civil war architecture for the sake of making atlanta,,,the next 'New York", not to get off Stephanies thread,We as a whole need to save our history...