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'Merlin' carved into the rocks at TintagelEnglish Heritage has commissioned a carving into the rocks at Tintagel. As this is the News Section I will refrain from expressing a personal view. http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/search-news/merlin-carving-tintagel |
Posted by tjj14th February 2016ce Edited 14th February 2016ce
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We are informed that the carving is part of an ongoing process of "re-imagining" and "re-interpretation" of Tintagel. I dare not think what Richard Wilson (who played Gaius in the imaginative BBC series "Merlin") would say. |
Posted by Howburn Digger15th February 2016ce |
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I thought it was just me |
Posted by tomatoman 15th February 2016ce |
| Should go well with Lancelot's Carpark and King Arthur's Chippy (iirc). |
Posted by thesweetcheat16th February 2016ce |
| English Heritage have commissioned this, what? Don't they ask people to vote or summat? Or maybe they did. Surely Tintagel does well enough for tourist cash. I'm not refraining tjj, to me it's bloody ridiculous:) |
Posted by carol27 17th February 2016ce |
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"On 1 April 2015, English Heritage was divided into two parts: Historic England, which inherited the statutory and protection functions of the old organisation, and the new English Heritage Trust, a charity that would operate the historic properties, and which took on the English Heritage operating name and logo.[2][3][4] The British government gave the new charity an £80 million grant to help establish it as an independent trust, although the historic properties remained in the ownership of the state." A clue here as to its behaviour, I think. |
Posted by tomatoman 18th February 2016ce |
| https://youtu.be/2GA4A3Y-1Ig |
Posted by Howburn Digger 19th February 2016ce |
| Final comment from me.........what is it about "craftsmen/women" who get commissioned for this stuff all over the country, thankfully usually in wood, that drives that tastelessness from within? |
Posted by tomatoman 20th February 2016ce |
| They presumably know what people expect & they're paid for it? |
Posted by carol27 20th February 2016ce |
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Disneyfication complaint at last..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-35837271 |
Posted by moss23rd March 2016ce |
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