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nigelswift Jun 8, 2007 04:35:32
Replying to VenerableBottyBurp

Aye, good points VBB. As you will know I'm sure, my "come off it" wasn't aimed at you but at EH. Engaging the locals is right and overdue, I just feel it shouldn't be used to divert from the fact that there are an awful lot of other stakeholders that have fundamental natural rights to be kept informed - and the duty to do so ought to have been recognised without any need for prompting either from the stakeholders themselves or from international conventions.
After all, we're all taxpayers. That should have been a bit of a clue.

V VenerableBottyBurp
VenerableBottyBurp Jun 8, 2007 09:37:28
Replying to nigelswift

nigelswift wrote:
taxpayers.
I thought we lived in a worker's collective" (Michael Palin and Terry Jones I think).

I think EH are soundly demonstrating why they should not be in sole charge of presenting history at any site anywhere in the country, and particularly at Stonehenge. They insist on doing everything in-house then get the story horribly wrong and leave lots of important details out. What I have seen at Silbury is a complete let-down, and as pointed out above, the presentation on the web has lost of shortcomings. EH have perhaps noticed they have been shown up by an unofficial site who has no special access - an amateur who is not amateurish showing professionals what the public want.

VBB

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