1970: SPIKE MILLIGAN laments neglected building | Nationwide | Classic BBC clips | BBC Archive
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2022
- “A whole world of human personality still remains in the building.”
This Nationwide report finds comedian Spike Milligan in a sombre mood, as he details the Council's failure to maintain St Albans in Hampton, a beautiful old historic building that was bequeathed to the Borough of Twickenham just nine years ago. He surveys what remains of the grand old house, and expresses his anger and sorrow at the way we treat our architectural heritage.
St Albans was demolished in 1972.
Originally broadcast 8 October, 1970.
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I watched this and saw Spike as a brilliant narrator and felt his compassion for this beautiful broken building. Such a shame.
He was unique. Thank heavens he left us with a large archive of his work to keep his memory alive 😃
Spike's passion for historic architecture and the cultural importance of preserving old buildings like these only enhances my deep love for the man and makes me realize how, often, the greatest comic minds are also the most humanistic. At least, there in Britain, you now have semi-strong historic preservation laws that more or less prevent greedy real estate developers from unceremoniously wrecking perfectly fine "outmoded" buildings, through either intentional neglect or outright demolition, and putting up post-modernist monstrosities in their place. Such is the sorry state here in the United States, and we are much culturally and aesthetically poorer for it!
Spike was ahead of his time in some of these things.we still fighting the closing of local buildings.
Council are only interested in profits and themselves. I use to go to 17th century Inn near Chester called the Golden Grove it was a listed building down a lovely country lane some times if they were closed the owner would reopen especially for my mother and myself. The listing was taken off, and the inn demolished. There are now house's built their
'I told them I was I'll' Genius
Love Spike :)
what a pity shame on them
This is NuT council & St John's Cemetery - they've opened the windows of the lodges to ingress pigeons & the weather to rid themselves of the obligations of the multiple listings. Even hiring wreckers to ruin the Jewish cemetery with 'professional' ruination over one night, where they crow-barred the walls down & tipped drysoil over the tumble to age/distress it. I have all the 'photos taken a day or 2 later. Betty Surtees House - Eng Heritage, didn't want to know, very obstinate & obstructive to me informing them, Kate Wilson I think it was. *PC's Galliott & Stevenson, the same, even tho' it was their beat - total disinterest. Around 2005. Got a disc full of 'photos.
Get your photos printed if possible.
@@endless2804 - forever.
What a shame..2....WHAT A GREAT MIND SPIKE HAD ...A GREAT MAN !!! THE LAST SUPPER ...HA HA !!!
6:03 - exactly what everyone thinks about the council!
Spike Milligan narrated absurdities for the Media to forget
Minnie, get my elephant gun!
- You can't shoot elephants in England!
And why not?
- They're out of season!
Good old Spike
I know this was made in 1970 but is the building still there
It was demolished a few months after this small film was made.
What happened to the building since?
demolished in 1972
@@MrGaryjames1 what a shame
Sadly not surprised ☹️😔
100,000 quid 😂
Almost a million quid in today's money. Reasonable for a substantial manor house in need of renovation (that is, before it started to completely fall apart)
Councils continue to be useless.
Guy was always tapped