A group of bikers spent a pleasant afternoon at their national icon…
It won’t happen again. For one thing, these days they wouldn’t be allowed to bring their bikes. For another, English Heritage would charge them a total of £625 to stand just there (or £1,550 to go inside the stones!) So what’s behind the change? Clearly, it’s because English Heritage has been given a monopoly and so is free to charge as much as the market will bear.
But people DO have an alternative, of sorts, which monopolies hate. Get rid of that and the demand – and the price – will continue to rise. You can view the stones for free from a distance, without paying a penny and, coincidentally or not, English Heritage is working flat out to hide that free view enjoyed by millions of people forever as part of the hugely damaging short tunnel scheme.
Anyone care to guess the price they’ll charge to see the stones in five years if their monopoly on even seeing Stonehenge becomes absolute?
Update: We have received a Comment from paulintheswimhotmailcom which adds to the story. He explains that it is The National Trust which will share the monopoly (EH owning the monument and NT owning the land surrounding it) and The National Trust is ALSO supporting the short tunnel scheme!
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16/12/2019 at 09:46
paulintheswimhotmailcom
I shudder to think what the price will be as English Heritage (and National Trust too) will end up with a total monopoly of nearly everything relating to Stonehenge. Their greedy and elitist attitude is in very stark contrast with the original ethos behind Stonehenge as being probably the largest and longest running community project in Britain. A thoroughly worthwhile and meaningful project which physically stands to this day. It sets an example of community spirit over selfishness, which modern people should try to follow.
The proposed tunnel and road scheme will be hugely damaging to Blick Mead in the east, which predates Stonehenge by 4,000 years. Similar damage will be caused to the area in the west, which contains the densest concentration of Neolithic long barrows in Britain and predate Stonehenge by up to 1,000 years.
The tunnel and road scheme will be a disaster…………….our nation’s history will suffer as a result…………….and we are likely to have the national shame of having lost Stonehenge’s prestigious UNESCO status.
Britain must NOT let this tunnel and road project go ahead!
16/12/2019 at 11:05
heritageaction
Thanks Paul.
See our Update.