27th June 2013, 06:21 AM
This is not a good day for English Heritage, although I have a sneaking feeling that the National Heritage Protection Service (at least from an archaeological point of view) may be a service whose time has come....as regards the properties in care....it seems a little strange to even contemplate setting up a charity whose aim, purpose, organisation and status exactly mirrors that of the National Trust. I suspect that this will dawn on someone even before the ink has dried on the slightly dodgy £80m cheque.... my suspicion is that someone may already have gone down that route, but the NT (off the record) probably estimated that an endowment of £800 million might be closer to the true cost of 'devolving' this asset.....
With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...