'Country house tea rooms' & technology!

IN July Jeffery Green in a comment on this Blog said:  'Yes the NT is a somewhat stuffy and middle-class group, which recently found that there was much public interest in the kitchens and servant quarters of the grand houses that it owns.  I think so much is due to that arch-snob Lees-Milne who negotiated with the financially straightened owners - in Pulborough's Petworth House NT enabling the family to stay in the front portion of the grand house whilst the NT kept up the deer park and permitted visitors to the rear.  They finally allow access to the kitchens. 

'But they did purchase that Chartist cottage near Bromsgrove and the workhouse at Southwell so slowly the NT became slightly socially aware.'

 This month Jonathan Aylen, from Salford in Greater Manchester, wrote in a letter in the FT last Saturday that  'There ought to be a landscape dominated by cooling towers somewhere in Europe.  Perhaps the National Trust should be planning to acquire Ratchiffe-on-Soar power station south of Nottingham when it closes?'

Mr. Aylen observes:  'Large swaiths of carbon intensive technology technology are about to become obsolete and dissapear with little record.  In the same vein, Britain was the first to use but is now the first to dismantle civil nuclear power stations.'

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