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Tuesday, April 6, 1999 Published at 14:07 GMT 15:07 UK UK Your suggestions for the World Heritage list My suggestion - the maze at Hampton Court Palace. It looks small but is completely baffling. When I went there first, an elderly lady fell over and the ambulance crew wandered around for 20 minutes before they could find her - even with Hampton Court staff helping them! (She was not seriously hurt.) Kate also Australia, but living in the UK
I would suggest Alexandra Palace - the birthplace of not only of the BBC
Television service, but of television itself.
The Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. The last hydraulic power station in the world to cease operation (1976!). A wonderful piece of industrial architecture - a building which made London tick - has a human scale, and a simple, social meaning.
I nominate Southend Pier - the World's longest pleasure pier.
How about Creswell Crags on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire county border? Already acknowledged as a very important source of archaeological information covering many millennia.
Port Sunlight Village, Wirral, Merseyside. Home of Lever Brothers Soap, and Town built to house, educate, support, care for employees and families.
May I suggest the Chunnel, which in spite of its controversy is the most spectacular achievement by Britain.
The Meteorological Weather Station on the top of Britain's Highest mountain
Ben Nevis should be on this list. For two decades at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, this feat of human endeavour and technology provided valuable scientific data about the weather and its systems in one of (if not the most) inhospitable places in Britain.
For many obvious archaeological reasons Orkney should be a World Heritage Site.
The whole of Gibraltar is suitable as a world heritage centre. There are many fortifications still almost in tact dating back to the Moorish occupation of Europe. Since those days countless number of fortifications have been erected to counter a large variety of sieges and conflicts.
I would love to see York nominated for its Viking and medieval heritage, much of which can be seen today in the fabric of the town. Surely the survival of artefacts here cannot be questioned?
I am surprised on the list of current UK World Heritage Sites that Salisbury
Cathedral is not listed. Surely, as the most perfect example of a cathedral built in a 'single architectural style' (Early English), with the second highest tower in Europe (Ulm, Germany is highest!) and in such a classic English setting - the lovely cathedral Close - it should be!
Glencoe, Edinburgh Castle. The Old Course - St Andrews.
I would like to see early industrial sites on the list - places such as Ironbridge and Cromford, Derbyshire as well as areas of natural beauty such as Dartmoor and the cities of Chester and York.
I would add HULL to the list because it has plenty of it and also has one of the friendliest people on Earth.
Nottingham England: THE TRIP TO JERUSELEM PUBLIC HOUSE
Arambol, in Goa, India, currently unspoiled fishing village, with a few tourists and not much else.
Currently being looked at with a view to developing a large hotel and golf course, which along with destroying the beauty of the area will require a level of irrigation that will completely destroy the local water supply - and hence the town.
I would like to see Brighton and in particular the West Pier nominated. Despite its current decrepit state, the pending renovation and its setting in the Archetypal British seaside resort, the West Pier and Brighton itself are classic Victorian icons.
The list strikes me as highly unbalanced. Why three northern industrial zones, but neither of England's ancient universities? Why the Jarrow monastic sites (which are very fragmentary but just happened to be in a deprived inner city area) but no medieval cathedrals? Why railways and mines but no country houses? I'm not objecting to any of the proposals in themselves, but they don't represent anything like the variety of historic sites in Britain.
How about Old Trafford, home of the greatest football team in the
world!!
I assume that Stonehenge is already on the list as well as Avebury and the Barrows in Suffolk. I would nominate the town of Lavenham in Suffolk which has an almost perfect medieval market square as well as the only Anglo Saxon Mead Hall left in existence.
Dilmun (State of Bahrain)
I feel strongly that all the Neolithic sites should be included as World Heritage. Many of course like Avebury are National Trust listed, but are the "Hurlers" at Bodmin Moor, Cornwall?
Arran should be on the list of proposed World Heritage Sites for its role in the history of Geology. Surely the Geological Community could come up with several others sites of either intrinsic geological interest or of importance in the history of the science.
1. Cairngorms, Highlands
The top ten World Heritage sites would include Alaska, Grand Canyon, Urululu, Fiordland, Arnhemland. I don't think suburbanised countries such as Britain or the Netherlands have anything worthy of World Heritage listing.
I suggest the islands of Iona and Lindisfarne ["Holy Isle"] as linked Sites.
What about the beautiful valley in Huddersfield where the industrial revolution began? Colne Valley which gave us the world's first factory, saw plenty of Luddite activity and is now in need of some money spending on it?
Navan Fort is Northern Ireland's most important pre-historic monument, the political and spiritual capital of the ancient kings of Ulster. The Navan area also contains three other sites of great archaeological importance; The King's Stables, Haughey's Fort and Loughnashade.
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