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Glastonbury Tor

Fathers for justice..

tjj T
tjj Oct 3, 2007 22:41:32
Replying to Littlestone

The point I was making was that having spent over half a million pound restoring the Glastonbury tower, NT will now have to spend an unknown amount to undo the damage done by Fathers 4 Justice. This must be disheartening for any organisation, especially a voluntary one.

I am in no way defending the previous NT actions you refer to. In fact I recall personally writing to to NT to object to them allowing mountain bikes to be used on Avebury during the filming of a TV drama.

I very much respect the tireless campaigning Heritage Action have done to protect and properly conserve Silbury Hill. I have ask, however, both Nigel Swift and Littlestone how they would react if F4J pulled a similar stunt on Silbury and undid the work that has currently been undertaken to restore it.

N nigelswift
nigelswift Oct 4, 2007 06:43:57
Replying to tjj

I have ask, however, both Nigel Swift and Littlestone how they would react if F4J pulled a similar stunt on Silbury
I'm sure you know the answer. But I don't see how we've missed a point here. We've all been saying for ages that officially sanctioned stunts seem to lead to unofficial ones and the Tor seems to be an example. This doesn't imply a lack of sympathy for NT for what has happened, but when the new head of NT announced in her first speech a while back that new and inventive ways of making money out of the places in their care had to be explored she was opening a can of worms, evidently.

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