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SNIBSTON: "Oh no there isn't"! "Oh yes there is"!

Discussion in 'Everything Else Heritage' started by oddsocks, Jul 8, 2014.

  1. oddsocks

    oddsocks Well-Known Member

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    GONE.
    http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/G...-Museum-torn/story-29157847-detail/story.html
     
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    Criminal damage.
     
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    That is shocking - nothing more than official vandalism! No money to run the place but the council finds £180,000 to knock it down. If the council wants to save money, it should, like every other council in the land, take a good long look at itself and dispense with the many waste-of-space jobsworths in non-jobs who infest such places.
     
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    Any one know where the larger railway exhibits, locomotives and carriages have been moved to?
     
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    Total waste of a good building. Many a bus preservationist would have paid the going rate to store a vehicle in there. Could not the building which seems modular not been offered elswhere? Shame on the council.
     
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    Now they have even gone and destroyed the Leicester and Swannington Railway, Stevenson Lift Bridge (See right hand column)http://lihs.org.uk/news.html
     
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    The passage of time has not eased my views on the wanton act meted out on Snibston which really was an affront to not only our heritage but also to science and learning .
     
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    Indeed.
     
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    Wow! Another big new housing estate.
    That will really be something to be proud of!
    I'm sure the tourists will be flocking in to see that.

    Numpties!
     
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    The fac that these idiots think they can minimise the traffic impact by giving out bus passes says it all.
     
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    It's sad that the railway collection at Snibston still hides away in the pit buildings, gathering dust instead of finding new homes. I think the tracks being turned into a cycle path? They even have the last existing engine of the Powlesland & Mason, and it's the last standard gauge steam engine built by Brush at the Falcon Works still in existence. There's also an RSH saddle tank of some sort hiding out there too.

    What's interesting is, I heard that some lines did approach Leicestershire County Council with offers on the non-Leicestershire items (Namely Cadley Hill No 1, an austerity tank which worked here in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire) and were apparently rebuffed. I haven't asked anyone in our own local council if we have a stake in said engine and that might be why said offers have been rejected, but it makes one wonder.
     
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    That shows the councillors "priorities" - vested interests, anyone ?

    I'm still raging about how Snibston was destroyed.
     
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    There's certainly something off about most of the statements in the various council planning documents regarding the plans for the site. The colliery buildings are noted to be of "Only moderate historical importance" (despite the various buildings and elements thereof being from the earliest days of deep mining in the UK). "Moderate" still means some £2m+ has been spent on these buildings to stop them falling down completely. The railway shed is singled out as it was built basically at the same time as the L&SR and remains largely in original condition (moreso than the rest of the colliery).

    Because they can't get rid of/nobody wants the Finnish Coach, they intend to retain it for additional cafe seating, and plan a new cafe on part of the original running line. The railway itself is due to be kept, somewhat, and on certain days a railway item is going to be shoved vaguely near said caf so people can come gawk at it.

    They also show little to no interest in anything that's "not of historical importance to the site" which means most of the wagons and presumably Cadley Hill No 1.

    Quite an oddity, as, even with the Discovery Centre now gone, there's certainly scope to develop the site into quite the nice "urban colliery" museum. The line itself is all still there right across the road and car park (just buried), terminating about 100 or so yards from the Coalville Indoor Market... and right where the new station would go on the Leicester-Burton Line as per NWL proposals.

    I mean, it's not like there's already examples of such lines running slowly in heavy traffic areas like, say, The Bristol Harbour Railway, is it?

    The problem is, sadly, it's in Coalville, a town where much money has been spent and little change felt, it seems LCC's plan now is to just abandon Coalville to its fate as a very large dormer town.
     
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