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Re: Devizes Museum - hoorah - sort of!
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I am not being that naughty really, think about this:

Devizes was chosen by the Wilts Arch Soc in 1853 as an HQ not only because it was the centre of the county for travel by horse, but seen to be the centre. Not Swindon, not Salisbury, not the county town of Trowbridge - the centre. Now like cottage hospitals, country pubs, village schools, rural shops, everything is being centralised because people have access to personal modes of travel/phones/internet. This initially was going to work in favour of Devizes - five years ago the county records office was planning to move to Devizes along with the national photo archive, however that went to Bradford and the county RO has moved to Chippenham because of the transport infrastructure. The flip side is that those from the south of the county will start keeping their own archives and historians won't know where everything is and have to travel round to find it. The one thing that the Wilts Arch could do to centralise Wiltshire collections and make them accessible (add the argument her 'how much is Stonehenge worth?') is to relocate to the place where the visitors already go and attempt to democratise the visitor experience.

I might just add that moving to Avebury would not be work as well as people visiting the site already spend all day and have plenty to see and do) whereas at the famous place they average a stay of 20 minutes and get propaganda shoved at them by EH.

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Posted by VenerableBottyBurp
16th February 2007ce
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