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http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PeatMoorsCentre/
I am asking you all to sign ths petition for the Peat Moors Center and to please pass this on to anyone else who is interested in saving this brilliant piece of heritage.
Nicola Cooke
BAJR wholeheartedly supports this - so please do sign and pass on :face-approve:
?When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.?
William Blake
For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he
Thomas Rainborough 1647
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any links to info? They haven't said what the petition is about, other than to save the centre...
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Peat Moors Visitor Centre was a development of a small information centre that the John Coles had set up as part of the Somerset Levels Project. To mark the centenary of the discovery of the Glastonbury Lake Village, arguable THE most important Iron Age site in Britain (because of the survival of waterlogged material that geve an insght into the richness of the material culture that is normally missing from dry sites) a small team reconstructed and furnished two roundhouses and a couple of other structures for a forge and pole lathe, based on the excavation reports, replica sections of various ages of timber trackway were built in a peat cutting trench, the original site hut was rescued from a field and refurbished ih a display on the excavations on the site nd the Times reported on the opening, 100 years after they reported the original site being found.
It was built on a shoestring budget - I was the designer and architect of the reconstructions on site and e had vlunteers and slaves (from the local bail hotel) toiling for months cutting and hauling timber and putting the site together. I also invested a great deal emotionally in the sie as while we were building I had a son who was then diagnosed as suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy and who died in the October of 1992, aged seven and a half months.
Like so many visitor centres and heritage centres it is an "easy hit" for coucillors when they are looking at saving money from the budget, but once gone its unlikely to be replaced.
so sign the petition.
Peter
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This is a great resource and must not be axed by cost cutting bureaucrats !!! so everyone please sign......
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Chance to save heritage and jobs as well as put out a message that this is important.. not just here... but everywhere!
?When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.?
William Blake
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Also write to the relevant portfolio holders at the ounty
http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/council/figures/
Sadly the No 10 petition will be ignored probably on the grounds that its not a government matter, its down to the actions of the democatialy elected council of the county, who are perfectly entitled to make cuts in non-statory services.
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That is also true... I can almost read the reply now !
?When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.?
William Blake
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Is it possible to set up an electronic petition such as the one intended for Downing St. but direct it to Somerset county council? Or could someone legitimately copy the original and send it to the cc?
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I dont know if the petitions to No 10 are ever effective but one directly to Somerset CC may have more impact...though as Hosty says ...i can almost read the reply now.............
