Time to back Stonehenge and back EH

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nigelswift Feb 8, 2013 09:15:51
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Well personally, although we can all criticise certain aspects of what they're doing I think they're on the right track given the realities of what they're faced with and that letter was completely out of order. Having a picnic with no-one else around was very nice but now there are a million visitors a year such reminiscences are completely irrelevant and unhelpful.

M Mustard
Mustard Feb 8, 2013 09:29:32
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nigelswift wrote:
Well personally, although we can all criticise certain aspects of what they're doing I think they're on the right track given the realities of what they're faced with and that letter was completely out of order. Having a picnic with no-one else around was very nice but now there are a million visitors a year such reminiscences are completely irrelevant and unhelpful.
I do wonder though how much of that reality is *created* by EH. I cynically suspect that it serves their interests to milk the cash-cow of Stonehenge, so rather than discouraging coach-loads of visitors (which might well be better for the monument), they actively work towards pulling in the heads and thereby the money.

Having said that, it's a very unique and complex situation with no easy solutions, so I don't have a strong opinion on the matter.

S Sanctuary
Sanctuary Feb 8, 2013 10:06:28
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
Well personally, although we can all criticise certain aspects of what they're doing I think they're on the right track given the realities of what they're faced with and that letter was completely out of order. Having a picnic with no-one else around was very nice but now there are a million visitors a year such reminiscences are completely irrelevant and unhelpful.
I don't believe they are irrelevant at all. I'm from the era where the henge was still in comparative solitude and much as it was probably meant to be and I'm 100% positive we enjoyed the freedom of being able to walk amongst it all. It WILL be like Disneyland now, something you were very much against when the current Avebury thread was being heavily discussed.
As Mustard said it IS a cash cow and just about anything goes now to keep it that way. It is no longer an attraction to me because I've seen the best of it but of course a gold-mine for all the tourist companies. I wonder how it would fair without them? Maybe the visitor numbers should be reduced so that those that do come along can have more time and more freedom to move around it. The chances of that happening...ZERO! Money comes first.