I saw it on the net—we we're getting a new build. So, I am the last.
The building will live on, in a few years it won't echo with kids. It will become just another building—a church that became a cinema, that became a bingo hall, that got torn down to build a something that was much more horrid than an empty space.
It, the building, is somewhat important, in a National sense; the architect is revered. It won't be raped like more-proletarian builds will be. It will will retain its outside look. What's the point of that? It will be gutted.
It will never again be what it was built for. It'll become a hotel, or luxury flats, or a car park, or a whatever. It will become a some-thing that has lost its purpose. A shell for people to inhabit like hermit crabs inhabit the shells of their dead crustacean mates.
Someone else will care for it, will know it and love it. But they'll love it for something that it never was meant to be. They won't love it like me.
Let me explain why I'm annoyed...
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Sad for you Nellie
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Hi Neil, in my previous life, before semi-retirement, i was a head of a big primary school and went through a re-build. Beautiful new school, we all had a big say in the design etc fantastic for the children blah blah blah but it just never gained that same soul. It was 8 years ago so maybe now it has.
The old buliding was made from corrugated metal, left over from the aircraft hangars in WW2. Cold, hot draughty, nooks and crnnies for the children to hide around a corner, flat roof - haven for young teenagers blah blah blah. I was so sad when it all went. Yep, the children and the people make a building but it just didn't have that something...and you know, it was strange - everything worked!!!
It does sometimes make me wonder if we are removing every single thing for children to ever have to think of a danger or a risk.....
When is it all going to happen?
Gillian
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Remember that this is a [pretend] novel; I'm going to lie to make a point.
@Susan I'm wistful rather than sad.
@Gillian You, like me, know that a school is an odd mélange—every part has to be right for it to work. Measure what you like success can't be quantified. It's about a feeling and a shared ethos. The plan for the novel is to explore that.
We'll see how I do.
thanx for the input.
arb
nellie