Whatever the background to the creator, it's absolutely beautiful @fidgetbones. I'm a great admirer of the skill involved in dry stone walling. We have so many walls all over our hills here, and some must have been unbelievably difficult to do.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Well I got the county archeologist out, and he recommended to the planning dept that it be retained because of their local distinctiveness. A few days later the developer turned up with a digger and demolished the lot.
I named and shamed the digger driver on a local private facebook site. He got the police out within hours to request that we closed it down, because he was upset. I got news, 250 people were absolutely livid. No chuffin way. That was followed up with a phone call implying that if there was any antisocial behaviour in the vicinity of the digger drivers house, they would be putting it squarely at my door. Is it my job to keep the paramilitary wing of the local history society under control?
Pretty amazing that the police came out in hours over a posting on a private facebook site of something that is already in the public domain, and available from a government website (companies house), but will not do anything whatsoever about the birds nests that were destroyed by men under his direction 18 months ago in the middle of the nesting season.
That's so awful @Fidgetbones. Obviously somebody in the planning department (who should be very ashamed of themselves) tipped the developer off. It's not the first time it's happened. Gut-wrenching for you of course and a sad loss to the local community.
If we said nothing, it would get bulldozed. We got it recognised and it got bulldozed anyway. They could have done a much more sympathetic scheme to include mature trees and this feature wall, however, stuff everything and anything appears to be the motto. But heaven help anyone who exposes him. He prefers his cloak of anonymity, not a wildlife killing, archeological feature destroying heathen. His bullying by sending round the cops won't work either. I've been bullied by better than him, and they all came off worse.
Yes, Lizzie. Thats what I think. Seeing as only us, the county archeologist and the planning dept knew and it wasn't common knowledge. 18 months after clearing all the trees, to just randomly turn up with a digger was more than a coincidence. Also no one available in planning to answer the phone that morning, coincidentally.
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I'm a great admirer of the skill involved in dry stone walling.
We have so many walls all over our hills here, and some must have been unbelievably difficult to do.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...