Comments on: George Barker & The Marquis of Lansdowne

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:08:08 +0000

I imagine costs are involved here. Why is it that renovating always seems to be much more expensive than demolition and rebuilding? Anyway, for a museum director to make the sort of comment he made is a serious mistake and I for one think he should resign, or at least be severely reprimanded …

By: David fry

David fry — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:17:38 +0000

Yes save our heritage !

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:14:45 +0000

I think the pub should stay, simply as the oldest building on the street. Looking at the two pictures of the Museums proposal and the the Pub, I d say the the pub wins. It makes less of a dramatic impact on the surrounding area – as its always been there. Changing it, with the Museum extension…would stick out as wrong – like a rotting thumb.

I also think that the museum should build their extension on one or two of the grass areas within the grounds of the museum (they would never consider doing that, which is why the pub should stay) – or knock down one of its extensions – as this would be cheaper and easy on the eye? Leave the pub alone!

Its quite easy to knock down something that has stood for years then spend more time and energy sourcing/rebuilding it again sometime in the future, when you realise later on, what a real gem it was…

Lastly, I cant see how building the new extension is going to “raise” things when we already have a modern station, and a new modern award winning restaurant opening up.. and the museum already has a modern extension, fact that they need yet another one, is testament to the museums building capacity short sightedness I repeat, rather than have extensions of different ages and types (really, there should be a limit!) all over the place perhaps the Museum itself should be knocked down altogether and replaced with a bright new ultra modern one.. LEAVE THE PUB ALONE.

By: The Photo Retoucher

The Photo Retoucher — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:56:11 +0000

Honestly i would walk straight passed that box! However that lovely old interesting restore, I would would stop and look and wonder… Preposterous!

By: Jane Anderson

Jane Anderson — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:57:56 +0000

What a golden opportunity to restore the pub and use it to extend the museum. What a shame if yet another historic building just disappears. There are plenty of cutting edge new designs in the city.

By: Cindy Eve

Cindy Eve — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:20:00 +0000

How absurd!!! and how pretentious of him to make such a statement. It’s thanks to people with that frame of mind that so much of the wonderful heritage of London and her Boroughs was lost in previous generations. I for one know of many people, myself included who would much rather dine in a ‘heritage’ restaurant/dining area than a horrible modernist concrete block. We have way too much of that already in greater London. Save this building ‘The Marquis of lansdown’ and lets take the man’s head out the clouds. he has obviously lost touch with the origins of having a museum in the first place. I would like to say “what a pratt” but I wont! And anyway, if the museum is funded with Lottery money, then since that was ours …the working class…then we should have a say in how it is spent! I agree with Robin Boyd, how ironic…the Director of a museum saying he has no interest in heritage!!! absurd!

By: Libby Hall

Libby Hall — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:14:59 +0000

Andrea

The British straight forward equivalent of ‘blue-collar worker’ is ‘working class’. ‘Labouring classes’ sounds 19th century and, it would seem to me, could only have been used to be as utterly disdainful as it sounds.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:28:25 +0000

Is “labouring classes” a term British people use openly (perhaps the equivalent of “blue-collar workers” here in N.A.), or is it as utterly disdainful as it sounds?

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:53:29 +0000

Peter Lorenzo. Thanks for that – I didn’t realise. It seemed very fishy when I saw it though!

By: Robin Boyd

Robin Boyd — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:44:41 +0000

What a dreadful comment by Mr Dewing. What an irony that a man with so little sense of history should be Director of a Museum. Perhaps his talents would be better employed running a burger bar. He should bow his head in shame and apologise.