| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Another one bites the dust | |
| Posted by: | Tracie Dudley Craig | |
| Date/Time: | 18/08/19 14:22:00 |
| NV - Good for you - I'm impressed. That's quite something to have on your CV and I imagine that the communities you helped were very grateful for your involvement in preserving a part of their heritage. I have a knife in my kitchen. It's not smart, it doesn't come from a celebrated cutler and no one would ever suggest that it was an indispensable part of a serious batterie de cuisine. However, it fits my hand perfectly, takes an edge exceptionally well and performs any number of tasks with precision. It has no merit, other than making me happy. Merit's like that... it's subjective. The proposed demolition of O'Riordan's would be the thin end of the wedge, were it not for the fact that that point had been passed a long time ago. It's just another name in the roll-call of small, supposedly insignificant losses in the fabric of our area, which add up to the brutalisation you mention. From my corner, that is very much the basis for debate. It may be redundant as a pub, but it isn't redundant as a piece of history in that built environment. (I'd also guess that its fabrication involved much more thought, skill and care than what will replace it.) You may not like the building, or find it pretty: I do. We'll have to beg to differ. I'd like to think we're on the same side regarding what's happening to our collective home. From what you've said, it would certainly appear to be the case. But the loss of the small and mundane impacts on the whole and when all those small, mundane things which - to some - lack merit are gone, what we're left with looks as though it will be very much worse. |