scruffybugger wrote:
> Torak wrote:
>
>>Never knew there was a car museum in Dumfries. I knew of the one in
>>Glenluce, but only been to the aviation museum in Dumfries. (I live just
>>west of there)
>
>
> It wasn't teally a car museum, but one for the Albion trucks.
> At one time Mick wanted to build a pretty major transport museum, which
> IIRC would have included the aviation museum (did you know their site
> is under threat?? The new owner of the Heathall site is trying to drive
> their rent through the roof) as well as cars, bikes & WHY (he also
> wanted to include steam trains, and maybe a link to the Paddy line).
> D&G council deliberately torpedoed the planning application by putting
> on really unreasonable constraints (like 3/4 of a mile of footpath
> between the Brasswell site and the Annan road roundabout - which
> probably would never have been used).
> At the time it seems they wanted total control of all of the counties
> museums. It would have been a fantastic asset in Dumfries, especially
> since there isn't anything else to attract tourists into the town
> (other than, of course, the sainted ****head Rabbie Burns).
What's that? Nothing interesting in Dumfries, you say? Why, there's...
There's...
Um...
You're right, it's the arse-end of the universe.
> PS as you can probably tell I was (and still am) greatly in favour of
> the idea
I think I may be in agreement with you. I'll have to nip in to the
aviation museum next time I'm back, see if I can help spread the word.
