How to Decolonise the Museums

HannahB

Well-known member
This is also posted in the tory bastards thread. Decolonizing everything is necessary including all Land - where Land is with capital L as sentient (Eve Tuck and Andrew Yang).

This is really important. Please join and go into the map, highlight the beyond paltry remaining paths and declare them high priority. This country is beyond a joke with roaming rights and (I read) the least evenly distributed land after Brazil, in the world (is this true?).
“Did you know…. the government have set a deadline of 2026 for all footpaths to be registered? If they’re not, the right of way will be lost including ancient routes of travel that have existed across this land for centuries. The right to roam will be gone. But it’s not too late. Go to https://www.ramblers.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/dont-lose-your-way-2026.aspx to register a right of way. If you love it, save it!”
 

catalog

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i recently got chucked off a golf course while leading a group of people to go and look at this old tree and one of the people chucking me off said "not to be an arse, but if we let you go, it will become a right of way..."
 

HannahB

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i recently got chucked off a golf course while leading a group of people to go and look at this old tree and one of the people chucking me off said "not to be an arse, but if we let you go, it will become a right of way..."
How did you resist and claim your right to stand on the is rock in outer space having been born on it?
I truly despise golf courses -
 

HannahB

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@catalog and also maybe there is an old ‘legal’ path to that tree - if you go to the Ramblers site I listed there is an interactive map where you highlight the path and declare it high priority. You can also comment. Do it on all the paths you enjoy and also the ones strangely no longer open
 

catalog

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i didn't wanna get in a fight with them cos i had all these people waiting, plus there was an alternative route, but it was very annoying.

all the golf people have bought up a lot of old houses / grounds / gardens and made them private, and some of these things are important in terms of history and have interesting features. but you can't go and look at them.

there is an access path across the course, but it would have made it a very roundabout route to the tree.
 

catalog

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i've joined that site now @HannahB

i'm going to see whether i can get a legal right of way to the tree. i am convinced that if such a right of way existed, a lot of people in this area would benefit, cos the woods that the tree is in are truly wondrous (i've written about them quite a lot elsewhere here).
 

HannahB

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i've joined that site now @HannahB

i'm going to see whether i can get a legal right of way to the tree. i am convinced that if such a right of way existed, a lot of people in this area would benefit, cos the woods that the tree is in are truly wondrous (i've written about them quite a lot elsewhere here).
Thanks, really grateful and I expect the tree is also. What kinda tree?
What that guy said is perhaps foreshadowing your imminent win 🥇🌳 or that maybe a path exists.
Please can you update on any progress? Things can get so tough with trying to do such basic things as this, ‘obstacles are opportunities’ apparently. Or can be.
 

HannahB

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i didn't wanna get in a fight with them cos i had all these people waiting, plus there was an alternative route, but it was very annoying.

all the golf people have bought up a lot of old houses / grounds / gardens and made them private, and some of these things are important in terms of history and have interesting features. but you can't go and look at them.

there is an access path across the course, but it would have made it a very roundabout route to the tree.
Yeah these golf people suck. If they aren’t wasting water and killing wilderness as an entity, they are inhibiting access to the bare minimum that remains on their monoculture area by saying things like: “…it’s been here 120 years!” Who gives a *^%.
& If those houses are victorian well you know, please demolish.
Guy Shrubsole’s “Who Owns England” is very informative if you are not already depressed that is.
 

catalog

Well-known member
I'll keep you posted if I manage to find a way. There's definitely another right of way, but it seems to be adjacent to a field that is used for horses, so they sometimes lock it.

We jumped the fence.

Here's some info on the tree, it's a 600 year old yew

 

HannahB

Well-known member
I'll keep you posted if I manage to find a way. There's definitely another right of way, but it seems to be adjacent to a field that is used for horses, so they sometimes lock it.

We jumped the fence.

Here's some info on the tree, it's a 600 year old yew

Beautiful!! Thanks for sharing. Such a lovely tree ♥️Give them my love
 

catalog

Well-known member
"Golf is a good walk spoiled,"
Early on in the first lockdown, the golf course was closed and we went up there a couple of times, sunbathing on the green, took little picnic and book. Saw a few birds of prey. Was great to trespass and I could see the appeal of the fame suddenly, you're in this beautiful open area, notionally doing something. No riff raff.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
There’s a place near here that used to be a golf course, but they moved the site about 15-20 years ago

It’s nuts which features have held their form and which have become pathways, which trees were clearly present contemporary to its use and which have been added subsequently

It reminds me of one of those medieval estates that were landscaped over decades, so when you re-enter the space it feels natural but it clearly isn’t
 
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