Notre Dame (Paris) on fire?



How as a nation, are we going to support the reconstruction of the Cathedral, as May has said?

If it is supplying some of the workforce then fair enough. If it is financial support, how much? We have issues of our own to fund first, like homelessness for a start.
 
How as a nation, are we going to support the reconstruction of the Cathedral, as May has said?

If it is supplying some of the workforce then fair enough. If it is financial support, how much? We have issues of our own to fund first, like homelessness for a start.
Thoughts and prayers mate, thoughts and prayers.
 
Have to laugh at all the comments about it "surviving" the Second World War.

Well, yeah.
So did me grandar, kna what I mean :lol:

Anyone got chanel 5 news on. That old fucker is doing my head in.

'How can you prevent a fire on a building site with stuff like ladders and cables on site....' :eek:
 
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So did me grandar, kna what I mean :lol:

Anyone got chanel 5 news on. That old fucker is doing my head in.

'How can you prevent a fire on a building site with stuff like ladders and cables on site....' :eek:

An interesting spelling mistake on a thread about Paris. Something doesn't pass the smell test.
 
We shouldn't donate anything IMO (my answer would be the same regardless of Brexit or Remaining), although I also think Macron has done nothing wrong personally.

agreed. it's probably been mentioned on another previous page, but there was an incident in England with a terrible fire 2 years ago, that seems to have been forgotten about.
 
Went for a second hand version for a quid. If I'm lucky it will have been owned by a student or an academic and "annotated". :D
I read it years ago but even now if I'm passing a church I have to look at the structure of the building and consider how the windows don't cause it to collapse ( you'll have to read the book to understand mate)

Cracking book
 
Didn’t go mad! You cannot be more wrong. As I have said in previous posts, it was constructed in only 40years using only muscle power, a great achievement. This means that it is built in one style, Romanesque or Norman which gives it that cohesive style. If anyone has visited Canterbury, it feels like 2 buildings stuck together, the styles are so different.
Durham was constructed using revolutionary techniques, it was the first major church to use the Gothic arch and flying buttresses. The reason that Durham looks plain from the outside is that it was “improved” some centuries ago and excess decorations were removed.
Bill Bryson said it is the best building in the world, I don’t disagree.
Also, with the big walls and being a flat City, Canterbury Cathedral is quite hidden at times. You don’t notice it much when in the city centre and then you can’t get close without paying. In York, you come up one of the old streets, like Stonegate and it is just there, very much part of the city. There is no missing Durham! I know York and Canterbury better than Durham, but Canterbury feels like less of a Cathedral City to me - though is probably England’s most famous.

In pictures: Notre-Dame fire aftermath

That first picture with the gold cross on the altar is amazing.
I am amazed at how intact the inside looks. I know there are doubts about the structure, but there are candles on the wall there not even melted.
 
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There was a program with Terry Deary a while ago where he was arguing that Durham Cathedral should be converted to flats as it symbolised Norman oppression. Lord knows what he wants to happen to Newcastle.
Being made to welcome our new Norman overlords was no doubt the reason for building Durham Cathedral and Castle, and the Tower of London and a host of others across the country. But time has transformed them into the repositories of our identity and history. When I visit Durham Cathedral, and see (amongst so many other wonderful and moving things), Bede’s tomb and coffin, the miners’ memorial, the DLI memorial, and the memorial to 607 (County of Durham) squadron, the Conyers falchion, the Frosterley marble and on and on, I know who I am.
 

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