
Pinned up at the side of my Apple Mac is a letter from the Planning Department of Leicester City Council. It's was a response to my objection to the impending destruction of of the Thomas Cook building in Granby Street.
It was as cold and soulless as I expected it to be, but the real downer is the fact that Leicester City Council, has no respect for the city's heritage, or the opinions of it's citizens. They trample over the city's historic landscape, like a giant bulldozer, out of control leaving giant gaps and empty spaces which they say are for 'major projects'.
It's nothing less than historical genocide, and they should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. I applaud the Civic Society who have done everything in their power to raise awareness of this despicable act, and those that have been out on tyhe streets in protest. But the horror show is not to end in Granby Street, so I'm told. The next victim is to be the All Saints Brewery in High Cross Street, leaving yet another crater deep in the heart of a city rich with veins of history that dates back to the Roman occupation and beyond.
And if that goes, why not dig up the Abbey Ruins in Abbey Park, and sell the ancient stones, to a local mason, remove cardinal Wolsey's grave and build another bloody office black, or car park. That's the kind of thought process that everybody who cares about history is up against. Short sighted, treacherous, vandalism. Where will it all end?.



