Time to back Stonehenge and back EH

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Mustard M
Mustard Feb 8, 2013 09:29:32
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 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.

N nigelswift
nigelswift Feb 8, 2013 09:39:14
Replying to Mustard

Mustard wrote:
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 lost 30% of their funding the ticket sales are very important to them no doubt but that doesn't make them a bad quango, just one that's trying to maximise it's income to save thee and me paying via taxes.

I'm not sure they have the right or duty to be discouraging visits. They're there to make the place accessible I'd have thought.