Writer illustrator 20th C architecture art engineering. Interests Modern Movement and British High Tech including Patera Building and Potteries recent heritage.
@austincwb@bluebirdk7 It’s the last place you’d go to find out about the search for K7, its recovery, rebuilding and running on Loch Fad. It ought to be the first.
Q. to Google: Do Ruskin Museum use volunteers?
A. “The museum has historically engaged skilled volunteers for major restoration and exhibition efforts, such as the famous Bluebird K7 project.” I wonder who put this slant on things? @bluebirdk7
@bluebirdk7@GrahamBoardman2 This type of information is what makes BBP’s the only reliable archive for study. Normally, you’d expect the museum to provide a full provenance - but they don’t.
@bluebirdk7@OriginalMuggles Parish Councils are not exempt from FOI requests as a class, but they can withhold specific information where an exemption applies, such as personal data, commercially sensitive material…. Not exempted but would they play that card?
@Wayne_midlife@Geoff___Smith@bluebirdk7 A friend's dad arrived late on 4/1/67 felt the silence and went home again. When he saw the images, he was haunted by them for life. Not long before he died, he asked to visit DCM’s grave to pay his respects.
@Addyspectre1@Rachelle_Hulme@m_jones_1797@dommedebbiexx Now there’s a question: Do digital images project themselves into the cosmos? That’s how I always imagined time travel - to travel more than speed of light - to get ahead of what the world looked like now to the observer.
@bluebirdk7 K7’s provenance was fully intact until March 2024 - every moment of its history had been recorded and filed away into an extraordinarily detailed archive. That’s what museums are supposed to do - RM have fallen well short in their tenure of the duty.