It's great to see the new Town End crossover in use but there is still quite a lot of tidying up to do.
The exhibition hall was open when I took this picture.
The re-enactors have gone leaving two seats upside down. More work for the Museum staff!
No Richard, the re-enactors haven't left the benches like that. The Events Team did because they have been broken since last year and outside works have been too busy to do anything about it. Would you rather they were left in situ damaged, to be used by a MOP? I don't think so!
ReplyDeleteIf the Event leaders hadn't removed them to the back of the display area, there couldn't have been a First Aid incident followed by an insurance claim against the Museum. We were merely protecting the Museum unlike some who like to "slag" it off at every opportunity.
'Leeds 180's bow collector was damaged over the weekend. It will be repaired quickly and effectively whereas Sheffield 264's trolley pole is still bent after a shunting accident several years ago.'
ReplyDeleteCould it be due to the fact that 180 is an operational car whereas for various reasons 264 isn't and a bent trolley doesn't really detract from it's status as an exhibit. Scarce resources need to be spent where they benefit most.
Isn't it a shame that you take a picture half way through the events team tiding up after a succsessful event and actually not come to help us. I find it a shame that you walk round the site finding fault with things and just moans about it. I've been a member at the museum for 20 years and active for most of them and have only ever seen you in the last five years walking round taking pictures of thing and not actullay helping do anything about it. It disapoints me to say this but i've had enough of people moaning about the events team. The museum is suppose to work as a team and most of the departments are.
ReplyDeleteRichard,
ReplyDeleteMay I add to Aaron's comments by expressing my own disappointment in the way you seem so happy to criticise, photograph (and therefore display to the world) any shortcomings, and run down the Museum you profess to love so much. We know, because you've told us repeatedly, that you are aggrieved over your treatment in the library, but surely your energies would be better directed in helping in other ways. We could certainly have found a use for you at the 1940s event for example - an event that brought the museum at least £30,000 in gate revenue. Instead of photographing unfinished tidying up, you could have rolled up your sleeves and helped!
Personally I think its a great shame that Richard's many contributions to the Museum over the past 50 years are ignored when people comment on his criticisms. Sometimes it takes someone who is not directly involved to spot things which many visitors may well have been unimpressed by. Frankly, based on the way he's been treated by some (but not all) TMS members, you should think yourselves lucky that he still has any involvement with the Society at all!
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