HOLES IN THE CASTLE ROOF
By Excalibur

Derbyshire County Council is supposed to be looking after Elvaston Castle and Country Park. You may have already seen the Gallery of Shame, photographs of all the farm exhibits, showman's carts, traps and carriages that the County Council have deliberately left out in the open so that most of them are rotten, rusty, and, as far as some of them are concerned, beyond repair. Just to make sure that this is the case, the County Council have burned some of them to speed up the clearance of the site, prior to their attempts to sell it to a commercial developer.

As the Castle Building itself has a Grade 2* listing, proving that it is a building of special interest, the County Council, according to the law of the land, is legally obliged to keep it 'Wind and Weatherproof.' Despite this, the Philistines at the County Council are totally ignoring their obligations and responsibilities. Please take a look at just two of the photographs that we have been given of Lady Harrington's bedroom (Click on pictures for larger image). Every time it rains, the staff are obliged to put buckets and an old tin bath underneath the hole in the ceiling to catch the torrent of water that pours through. The brown tide mark of damp stains on the carpet are also testimony to the problem.

As you can see, the ceiling has been patched in fairly recent times, but this has been to no avail. So the County Council have wasted even more taxpayer's money, by not doing the job properly in the first place. This is most definately a case of Derbyshire County Council, BREAKING THE LAW OF THE LAND! Just another burning example of the full-frontal culture lobotomy from this Labour controlled oligarchy.