David Cragg <[email protected]> wrote: >According to the local paper BW are to spend £27,000 doing up the BW yard at >Ellesmere. That is their share with £80,000 from the local council and £25,000 >from the regional mob. All this money will be used to repair the yard >buildings. Apart from the costs this sounds good but then comes the comment >that... 'BW is investigating how this site might be sensitively redeveloped in >the future, keeping it in operation while providing visitor attractions'. > > At this point I could not but recall a similar improvement job was done to >Hartshill Yard some years back with it being opened to the public to show >aspects of the work done there. No sooner opened it was than it shut and even >the local office there was closed to the public (being moved elsewhere in one >of BWs endless reshuffles to new offices). Then the yard was fenced off to the >public while the offices were taken over by a private firm. Result - most of >the money spent at Hartshill was wasted. > > Let's hope a similar fate will not claim Ellesmere's (still very historic) >yard.
Then there's what happened to the (very historic) Bulbourne lock gates workshop ... Adrian . Adrian Stott 07956-299966
