In the long debating thread about Dorman Long Tower - I don't want to add to the thread - I think it was Newy who brought up Battersea Power Station as basically having been reconstructed. This is not rare at all. In our area very recently both the Globe and Hippodrome are examples of buildings largely taken apart and reassembled. In fact many of our castles and the great Yorkshire Abbeys were dismantled and rebuilt around strengthening girders after WWII - without a roof the walls of romantic ruins were often standing at perilous angles and totally unsupported. So, up and down the country vast numbers of historic buildings have been conserved by picking them apart and rebuilding them again from their foundations upwards.
Re-Constructing Old Buildings
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newusername
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It is one thing, and an expensive and time consuming thing at that, to do it with buildings constructed out of stone, brick etc which can be dismantled, cleaned, restored and re-sited piece by piece, it isn't practical to do that with something that is effectively a massive single block of concrete.
rob_fmttm
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None of these buildings were re-sited. They were all rebuilt on their foundations. And I wasn't suggesting for one minute that should have happened at Dorman Long Tower - just I saw that point being raised as if Battersea Power Station was a rare case in point. It isn't. I thought maybe people are not aware that there are reconstructed buildings are all around us.
newyddion
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I must say I’m not a fan of ruins, I’d much prefer to see buildings restored and brought back into use.. what ever that might be.
What about Hadrian's Wall? Or Guisborough Priory? Or Mount Grace Priory? Fountains Abbey? Scarborough Castle? Whitby Abbey? etc etc.
They are dramatic and really draw the eye.
They are dramatic and really draw the eye.
newyddion
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I’d move Hadrian’s wall further south and build it back up! Guisborough Priory? Mount Grace Priory? Fountains Abbey? Scarborough Castle? Whitby Abbey? I’d love to see them fully restored.
Ha ha. Surely, the whole point about all these buildings is where they are sited. Especially Hadrian's Wall. It was a barrier at a narrow neck of land between the Tyne and the Solway Firth.
Some cultures restore many of their ruined monuments don't they, like China eg the Great Wall and Forbidden City for instance.
But what date do you choose to restore a castle or abbey to. They have changed and evolved, grown and been rebuilt over the centuries and then tumbled down afterwards. Edinburgh and Stirling Castle have actually totally rebuilt rooms from a certain century but they are completely newly built to represent what those rooms might have looked like at a certain period. It is controversial.
newyddion
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Yeah, I was as ever trying and failing to be funny. DLT was the boyo for me.. still gutted.
Yes - really sad.