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Welcome This site was established on Saturday 22nd August 2009. It is being developed as quickly as possible, and almost daily at the present time. Cheers. Alan Canvess The Aims of the Trust We believe that the ruins of the National Picture Theatre should be preserved for use as a memorial and for educational and community use and the Swan Inn restored and brought back into sympathetic use. The Beverley Road area and the city as a whole will then benefit. It would make a major contribution to the local community, education for children and adults and tourism. The National Picture Theatre, with its national and international significance, is a unique and distinctive survival, and has the potential to draw visitors from the region, the UK and abroad. In our view the current development application fails to take account of the significance of the National Picture Theatre either as a historic building, or as a powerful symbol for local people and those further afield. It fails to see the value of the cinema ruins to the local community, local pride or power of place, or to education and tourism. The National Picture Theatre is a focus for the city's wartime memories and for the remembrance of those who served on the Home Front. People and communities matter, and the Council must take the strong feeling of people living in the city in to consideration. The proposal to demolish the National Picture Theatre, and the disregard for the site's significance for local people especially is an insult and affront to those who served on the Home Front, and to the memories of the many that died during that struggle. It denigrates Hull and the great sacrifices that the city and its people made in wartime. We view it as especially ironic and disrespectful, and it saddens us particularly, that the owners submitted the application on the 18th March 2009, 68 YEARS TO THE NIGHT - when during an air raid on KINGSTON UPON HULL over 17th / 18th MARCH 1941, the National Picture Theatre was bombed! Do these people have no feeling about what happened to OUR city and the people who lived here during the years 1939 to 1945? We should never forget that it was the courage and bravery of the previous generation of our city and nation that stood together against tyranny, death and destruction to allow us the freedom to speak out. We are using this freedom now to urge the council to acknowledge the value of this building which, more than any other stands as a unique and powerful reminder and symbol of Hull's extraordinary fortitude during the war. |
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