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Amesbury needs a museum
by Simon at 22:30 26/06/08 (Blogs::Simon)
Salisbury and Devizes Museums are packed to bursting with artifacts and archives to the extent that curating new ones is becoming a problem.

Right on the edge of the Stonehenge World Heritage site sits the town of Amesbury, almost a ghost town where rival supermarkets compete to build megastores in sight of one another in some weird parody of "the competitive market"

Smack in the middle of Amesbury sits the old derelict Co-Op supermarket, a hideous eyesore of redbrick and chipboarded-up windows where the interior lights are left on all night 'for health and safety'.

This should be razed to the ground and the extensive area it occupies should be redeveloped into the Stonehenge World Heritage Centre Museum.

Amesbury needs to embrace its history as the last stopping-off point before embarking on the journey west across the bleak and forbidding (in Winter) or vibrant and welcoming (in Summer) Plain, and understand that its primary - if not sole - attraction to visitors is Stonehenge.

The Stonehenge Tour bus, which runs from Salisbury to Stonehenge doesn't even STOP in Amesbury - yet it drives up the main street en route. Look:

http://www.thestonehengetour.info/route.shtml

If Amesbury wants to halt its seemingly terminal decline it needs to reassess its priorities, stop hating Stonehenge for the traffic chaos it brings and decide to reinvent itself as a destination of choice for the almost 1m tourists who visit only a tiny fraction of the World Heritage Site each year.

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simon

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