Okay, we know that the National Lottery here in the UK has just celebrated 10 years of giving out dosh, but do you think we, the aviation heritage movement have been given our fair share – railways and maritime heritage have received far more than the likes of Elvington, Hendon, Duxford and Newark to name a few…
…Also what would you like the Heritage Lottery Fund to, er fund…
Discuss…
By: dhfan - 9th November 2004 at 15:47
I agree that it wasn’t a bad contribution, although it pales into insignificance against the £73 million (?) the Royal Opera House got and, if what I read yesterday is correct, the £449 million on the South Bank tent.
However the AAM is what I’m on about. Somebody was really impressed with the fancy design but I’m sure a simpler building would have been cheaper and more suitable.
By: ozplane - 9th November 2004 at 15:40
Err, didn’t Duxford get £5.5 million for the American Museum plus a further £10 million (approx) for the Air and Space Hangar? I would have thought that was a reasonable contribution.
By: dhfan - 9th November 2004 at 15:33
No we haven’t!
Dome, Opera houses….
(mutter, mutter, mutter)
I agree hangarage is the first priority. Unfortunately, idiot architects and style gurus think that fancy (expensive) buildings, even for keeping aeroplanes in, are better than hangars. See AAm and the new development at Cosford for examples.
This: http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/aboutus/building.cfm is what Cosford wanted.
By: Arabella-Cox - 9th November 2004 at 15:22
…Also what would you like the Heritage Lottery Fund to, er fund…
First priority – hangarage at various museums and collections, in order to ensure the long(er) term preservation of the historic aeroplanes and aviation heritage that we have today.
Second priority – preservation of historically important aviation-related sites; the Bawdsey radar site springs to mind.
Third priority – anything else which is deemed to be a ‘worthy cause’.
I’ll bite my tongue on the V word… 😉
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November 9, 2004 at 3:15 pm