Yes it is sad but sometimes there is an improvement. We have to move with the times. We have that here where you have to get Council approval to make improvements to the structure of your home or build a shed pull down certain trees etc. Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington.one@gmail.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [B&S] Researching from overseas (was A cautionary tale ...) > Hi Edie > > Your suggestion of pulling down buildings may have been true of the > 1960's and before but certainly not of today > > Planning laws are quite comical really, before they allow you to even > change windows etc and demolishing what most would consider an eyesore > would take heaven and earth to be moved before getting approval > (unless it was in a councillors favour of course :-) > > The problem is we want to remember things the way they were, but time > moves on and people change things and it disturbs the memories > > I went back to my birth village, the brook is all but gone, sluices and > pipes take it here and there unseen, the areas I once played on have > been built on, the small school is now huge compared to that I remember > > Sadly time and tide wait for no man :-( > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > >> history about and expect to find it that way. But in the UK especially >> houses get pulled down to make way for roads, or skyscrapers etc. it >> does >> happen to a lesser extent here, but not like England. >> >> Anyway, I hope you are feeloing better today. >> Edie > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >