| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Another one bites the dust | |
| Posted by: | N V Brooks | |
| Date/Time: | 18/08/19 11:58:00 |
| I rather resent being called obtuse. I worked for many years in the preservation and regeneration of come of the finest buildings in our country (16,000 CofE churches), some of world heritage status and others which were hideous Victorian monstrosities but each of which had significant merit both architecturally and, of course, to the communities in which they were sited. In context, the O'Riordan's Tavern site has no merit. It is an architecturally mundane redundant pub nothing more, nothing less. Were it of any import to its local community then moves to preserve and enhance would have been taken long before now. There is a need for architectural diversity, I have posted elsewhere about the brutalisation of Brentford, an area where my family resided since the mid-1850's and which, when 'The Brentford Project' is complete will be little more than yet another concrete housing estate. I am not sure however, that a long-redundant pub, no matter how 'pretty' some may view it (I think it is VERY ordinary) provides neither that diversity nor the basis for a debate. |