Re:Why would they expect Gates Foundation funding? (Score 1)

I wonder if you'd have the same view Telvin if it were the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz or Belsen which was being threatened by the bulldozers and property developers. The site is a link with Britain's wartime past, much like how the Imperial War Museum preserves the former RAF station at Duxford for the nation. Duxford was an important airfield in the Battle of Britain and is thus preserved as a link to Britain's past. You simply can't explain a site of such historical significance to future generations through a book, a television program or a 3D animation. The only way that you can get them to imagine how it must have been like in that period is if you took them to the place where it happened and showed them how it was done. The problem is that we're seeing the re-emergence of the movement who in the 1950s, 60s and 70s took especial delight in pulling down any building vaguely over 30 years old regardless of the historical significance. Look at London Euston Train terminus. The original was a one of a kind and a monument to Victorian engineering and now look at it. A huge concrete lump of the 1960s. But hey! Don't worry! We've got plenty of pictures of the old train terminus for bored kids to, y'know, not pay any attention to! Score!