MORE OF OUR CHILDREN’S HERITAGE DISAPPEARS FROM ELVASTON CASTLE

Here is evidence of more of our children’s heritage disappearing from Elvaston Castle in Derbyshire County Council’s indecent rush to attempt to get rid of the place. We photographed this lovely gypsy caravan and the carriage parked alongside it, waiting in the Fox Covert car park to be collected and taken away. From the fresh paint it is quite obvious that restoration has been carried out on these lovely old vehicles – at whose expense, and for whose benefit, one might ask? And why have they been hidden away, and not on view to the public? Just whose money is paying for these things anyway?

We have also included, in this item, a photograph of the car park ticket office, which, for a lot of the summer, has not been open. The County Council claims a shortage of staff, and yet one staff member was seen parked up in the car park, in a Council vehicle, talking on his mobile phone. The Council claims that it doesn’t have the money to restore and run Elvaston Castle – and yet, one of the main sources of income, the car park takings, is being allowed by them to dissolve into a zero figure. Is this incompetence, mismanagement, or is it, as one member of the public told us they thought it to be, planned obsolescence?

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