Well, Ben,
This is going to be a thorny subject. In general. I'm inclined to agree
with you, unless there were a ground swell of sentiment in favor
of restoring the site to it's original appearance and converting it to
a museum.
It seems to me that the town allowed the glass extension for the
showroom of Brooklyn Ford ages ago and that was when the real
damage was done. I seem to recall that there is a park across
the A 449 from the site. Perhaps a car wash is not exactly the
most appropriate replacement on this main road. Definitely the
locals should be allowed to decide.
The Ford Dealer obviously needs to move from the site to grow
and build a more modern facility with some parking, and needs
the funds from the sale of the property to do this.
Proposals, anyone?
William G. Lamb, III
NAS 4.0 Litre Plus 8
At 12:03 PM 3/16/2000 +0000, Hodgkiss, Ben wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>Why should this building be preserved? It has no architectural merit
>whatsoever and whether the building is demolished or not, the site will
>still be there. I'm afraid I'm totally unable to get sentimental over what
>is basically a dreary old factory building. Just my opinion.
>
>Regards
>
>Ben 1972 4/4
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jhalfdime@aol.com [SMTP:Jhalfdime@aol.com]
>> Sent: 16 March 2000 11:08
>> To: Jhalfdime@aol.com; Morgans@autox.team.net;
>> vintage-race@autox.team.net; British-Cars-Pre-War@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: ORIGINAL MORGAN FACTORY
>>
>> Dear Listers,
>> I also received this in an email from Martyn. My letter is already in
>> the mail. Let's do what we can to preserve this bit of Morgans (and the
>> world's) motoring heritage!
>> Cheers,
>> Jim Nichol
>>
>> You are most welcome to publish my letter concerning the planned
>> demolition of the original Morgan factory by any means possible. We
>> urgently need people to WRITE to the planning officer at the address
>>given Support from our overseas friends is vitaI and I am sure that a
>>strong internationalresponse will have great influence with the planning
>>committee who have thefinal say as to whether the building survives.
>>
>> I am currently writing to every councillor to recruit their support and
>>including a couple of period pictures with my letter so that they can
>>see exactly what is about to be destroyed. Similar letters have also
>>been sent to two local M.P.s, Lord Montague of Beaulieu,
>>The National Motor Museum at Beaulieu and one or two other
>>influential people.
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