Learning Through Experience is ……
…a scheme run by Mansfield District Council; officers give illustrated talks to other officers and elected members. I attended the session yesterday which was given by Mark Wilkinson, the council’s Conservation Officer. He told us about Mansfield’s past and showed wonderful pictures of the old Mansfield- the number of lovely old buildings of character that had been obliterated by savage demolition to make way for fashionable faceless concrete monstrosities in the sixties and seventies was staggering. These buildings that were so under-valued when they were standing are only now receiving well-deserved praise. There is a picture of ‘Lost Mansfield’ (c1823) available at the Museum and other historical pictures are held by The Old Mansfield Society.
It’s very true that we ‘don’t know what we’ve got till it’s gone’
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