
Midland Red Cherwell All posts by this member | 1 of 48 Fri 23rd Oct 2015 8:44am Moderator: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:5160 The Herbert "faces permanent closure" ![]() |
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Harrier Coventry All posts by this member | 2 of 48 Fri 23rd Oct 2015 10:01am Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:215 Coventry is considering applying to become the City of Culture.
Coventry is considering the closure of the Belgrade and the Herbert.
Have I missed something in the translation?? Question |
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charabanc Coventry All posts by this member | 3 of 48 Fri 23rd Oct 2015 10:39am Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:134 Add the potential closure of some libraries next year and I would say that the culture bid would be a dead duck. |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 4 of 48 Fri 23rd Oct 2015 2:23pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:2882 They won't be happy until it's a 'dead city'. I am shocked to read about the Herbert. ![]() |
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mickw nuneaton All posts by this member | 5 of 48 Fri 23rd Oct 2015 3:29pm Member: Joined Oct 2013 Total posts:412 This city of culture bid is turning into a joke with no performing arts and museum. ![]() |
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bohica coventry All posts by this member | 6 of 48 Fri 23rd Oct 2015 4:33pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:270 They could stop the bid and save even more money. |
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Helen F Warrington All posts by this member | 7 of 48 Sat 24th Oct 2015 1:10pm Moderator: Joined Mar 2013 Total posts:2443 The news about the Herbert is somewhat alarming and terrible if true. |
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bohica coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 48 Sat 24th Oct 2015 4:53pm Member: Joined Apr 2012 Total posts:270 Sadly they know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Would closing The Herbert also mean that we'd lose access to our historic records? |
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pixrobin Canley All posts by this member | 9 of 48 Sat 24th Oct 2015 9:31pm Member: Joined Mar 2014 Total posts:926 I think they were housed in the library prior to the History Centre opening |
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Osmiroid UK All posts by this member | 10 of 48 Sat 24th Oct 2015 10:26pm Member: Joined Aug 2013 Total posts:402 The council disgust me!!!!!!
They seem to spend all of taxpayers' money continually digging up pavements, changing road layouts for no reason, demolishing loved buildings and putting up buildings nobody wants. |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 11 of 48 Sat 24th Oct 2015 10:57pm Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:3630 Hi all ![]() |
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MisterD-Di Sutton Coldfield All posts by this member | 12 of 48 Sun 25th Oct 2015 12:27am Member: Joined Sep 2011 Total posts:814 You are right, Philip. It is absolutely laughable that people think the council want to close down things like the Herbert or the Belgrade just for the fun of it. They have absolutely no choice in the matter. Imagine the outcry if the Herbert were kept open while they allowed people to die because of it - that's what they are faced with. They are entirely at the mercy of a government that truly does know the price of everything and the value of nothing. We don't deserve to have a City of Culture anywhere in Britain while we have these philistines running the show. It is the same everywhere in the country, irrespective of the political colour of the councils concerned. |
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creteskyblue crete All posts by this member | 13 of 48 Sun 25th Oct 2015 4:22am Member: Joined May 2011 Total posts:40 I would like to see a breakdown of the salaries and pensions the councillors pay themselves, also was it not reported that the Chief Executive was paid more than the Prime Minister?
At the moment I live abroad, and have done so for a number of years, so I am not fully conversant with Council matters, so can anybody tell me why the Council, in this time of cutbacks, are spending money on a new Council Office?
Regards.
Edited by member, 25th Oct 2015 4:46 am Enjoy life,remember we walk this way but once. |
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NormK bulkington All posts by this member | 14 of 48 Sun 25th Oct 2015 8:10am Member: Joined Jan 2012 Total posts:746 I cannot find the words to express my opinion on this without offending other members so maybe one of these will do ![]() Milly rules |
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flapdoodle Coventry All posts by this member | 15 of 48 Sun 25th Oct 2015 10:21am Member: Joined Nov 2010 Total posts:845 Or the flipside. Why should taxpayers support a venue that's not viable and doesn't attract visitors? This seems to be the whole problem here. Not only unviable, but stuck in an unsuitable building that's dark, gloomy and somewhat cramped. The new extension is mainly wasted space. The most interesting thing there is the medieval cellar, but that's never open.
I don't go there because it's not a great museum and there's not really much there. Occasionally there's something decent on (we went to an excellent 'night at the museum' a few years back, and the George Shaw exhibition was superb, but other stuff has been dismal and poor), but they are few and far between. Sounds to me like the place needs a new leadership to bring it back to life and draw more things in that will attract people (like the recent Children's TV exhibition) - and ditch that huge permanent exhibition about Coventry. If people aren't interested in it there's no point having such a huge space dedicated to it!
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