Posted by Roger Wardale on November 04, 2011 at 06:43:54 user RogerW.
In Reply to: Re: The Dogs' Home posted by Rob Boden on November 04, 2011 at 02:40:16:
The photo in 'Master Storyteller' I took in May 2010 and I was shocked to see just how much deterioration had taken place since then.
The Dogs' Home is completely unique so far as the world of the S and A is concerned and to allow it to fall into disrepair when there is a 'Swallows and Amazons Fan Club' in existence is....
I will leave you to fill in the blanks.
If any group is formed to try to 'save' the building, count me in, though I am stuck 350 miles away, I can offer support. After all, it is the one location that I can claim to be the 'discoverer', having tramped miles following a vague hint from John Berry that he had found it somewhere in the woods but could not remember where.
Just about everything we value in the Tarry world was the result of individual enterprise — Mixed Moss, Amazon Pubs, The Library, The original Tarboard(?), every book on AR, the filmic Swallow!
So let's go to it. Sail Swallow has shown what we can do!