tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882578413887103850.post4043091489684765530..comments2024-03-25T22:53:57.841+00:00Comments on Demolition Exeter: The Destruction of Exeter in the 20th CenturyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882578413887103850.post-14407292054007148432014-02-25T21:50:05.243+00:002014-02-25T21:50:05.243+00:00I was planning on writing a post about the Stonema...I was planning on writing a post about the Stoneman & Bowker demolition. I made sure I took some photos before the demolition began. The post was supposed to follow on from a more general one about Sidwell Street but, as yet, I've not got around to writing it! Hopefully it'll happen at some point in the future. <br /><br />Thanks for the feedback :)wolfpawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06806875968340034510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882578413887103850.post-20938412391419495132014-01-31T18:30:18.306+00:002014-01-31T18:30:18.306+00:00Would be grateful if you could add a record of the...Would be grateful if you could add a record of the Stoneman and Bowker buildings in Sidwell Street, demolished last year, in spite of being mapped in ECC's CA appraisal as 'making a positive cotribution to the Conservation Area'. Modest late C18 or early C19 frontages, now replaced by a Shrek-scale student accommodation block with monster dormers. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882578413887103850.post-48987172055526515682014-01-27T00:10:00.438+00:002014-01-27T00:10:00.438+00:00Hi Ken - I agree that almost every town and city c...Hi Ken - I agree that almost every town and city council in the land have worked with planners to destroy the country's architectural heritage. Apparently Winchester, which was untouched by bombs in World War Two, had over 30% of its city centre demolished in the post-war period. Unfortunately for Exeter it had the added calamity of the Blitz to add to the pre-war slum clearances and the inevitable post-war demolitions. The Blitz should've put a brake on further demolitions within the city but it seems to have had the opposite effect, the planners and council overcome with an almost maniacal urge to start again and 'renew'. As I've written in other places on the blog, most of Exeter's pre-war landmark buildings, with the exception of the cathedral and a tiny handful of others, have survived either through either sheer luck or through the persistence of activists. Thomas Sharp wanted the museum demolished and everything that remained in South Street. The council wanted the Higher Market demolished along with the landmark Tudor buildings on the corner of Queen Street and the High Street, to name just a few examples. Attitudes towards heritage might've changed for the better but in the case of Exeter it really is, sadly, too late. wolfpawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06806875968340034510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882578413887103850.post-29287234385026080192013-11-19T04:08:42.005+00:002013-11-19T04:08:42.005+00:00Having been born in Exeter in 1945 I can support t...Having been born in Exeter in 1945 I can support the author's argument about the city's destruction from that time, however Exeter is not alone in such appalling behaviour as many town and city councils have put money ahead of heritage. The citizens of Exeter have the responsibility to ensure it stops from this time onwards.Ken Brewernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882578413887103850.post-55031399421713784822013-04-03T21:46:59.489+01:002013-04-03T21:46:59.489+01:00I find it quite depressing just how much wanton de...I find it quite depressing just how much wanton destruction of historic Exeter has taken place by self important town planners , leaving a rather souless city centre .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com