Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
Do you have any facts to back up these articles of faith?

I have a coppers nose for these sort of things Watership.

Lets have a gander at your arguement for retaining a duckpond, our 'alleged' heritage.


First off you claim to fill in the dock is a slap in the face to America!!!? ... Is it? How exactly ?.

If I was a decesdent of an Irish or a German emigrate to the USA via Liverpool docks, I don't think I'd be very concerned about how we got there or from what dock we sailed from. I'd be more concerned about tracing my ancestral roots, and why my ancestor sailed. ..

Then you bring up 'Ellis Island'... Let me first state, Ellis Island has a neglected twin, do you know of it?. And secondly, there are little or no records for any 'American' descendent to confirm from which Liverpool dock his ancestor sailed from.



And thirdly, with the logic you are using, in 160 years from now, there will be a Watership descendent complaining that the Terminus of Liverpools John Lennon Airport should be protected and renovated, rather than redeveloped, because thousands of people emigrated from there.

The only people concerned with the conservation of the duckpond is the residents of the exclusive apartments. Not the vast majority of the people of Liverpool, who would rather, it was redeveloped and not left as a stagnant pond for another 35 years. You are creating a historical myth and over emphasising the docks importance to the City, to the USA and to the waterfront.


This is why I suspect your motives for trying to save the duckpond have little to do with protecting 'our heritage' and more to do with protecting your property investment.