English Heritage Lay on Publicity Event for WiSBAng - Well Actually it's the Launch of the Stonehenge Visitor Centre, But No Need to Let Them Have All the Fun

A "Friend of WiSBAng" has passed on the following helpful information:





STOP PRESS: WEDS 18TH DECEMBER – LAUNCH CEREMONY

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-24329692

Put this date in your diary and make sure you have your Stonehenge Residents Passes ready.

If you weren't aware of the fact, the 30,000 local residents living in and around Stonehenge can, indeed should, take up the offer of free access to Stonehenge.

Just 5% of that 30,000 in a wholly peaceful queue on the day with some catchy placards would get our message across. Imagine the chaos if 10% turned up (that’s 3000 protestors). What about the administrative gridlock if 30% of us applied/re-applied for the free passes to which we are entitled under statute - a condition laid down when Stonehenge was gifted to the nation - that’s 9000 calls to process! As you may know, the procedure itself is stone-age, but English Heritage’s membership team will tell you how: 0870 333 1181

We've deliberately quoted the central membership number at EH HQ for fear of ruining the poor dear's life at their local office.

To be honest, all you really need to do is turn up at your local Library with proof of residence in a local village and ask for a Stonehenge Residents Permit - but place a call to English Heritage anyway.

Footnote.

Some wag has already suggested that each local village donates 1square metre of land to a "fighting fund". We divide each of these plots up into 1 million 1 sq mm parcels of land and offer them for sale on eBay.  As a landowner, you'd be entitled to residency and therefore free access to Stonehenge - now that might really set the cat amongst the pigeons.

Update:

Some helpfully inadvertent advice from Susan Greaney, an archaeologist and the Stonehenge museum’s curator,  who observed the following about the former denizens of Stonehenge.

 'They were able to pool together vast resources to construct this extraordinary monument using only simple tools.’  A good lesson for those of us today. 

We need to pool together our resources to ensure that A303 is dualled asap, using only the simple tools available to us like the internet, the press and a wealth of animal cunning.