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RESIDENTS are being asked to have their say on shaping Basildon's first cultural centre - and a museum is currently the front-runner.
Chase, which stands for Cultural Heritage for All South Essex, is a campaign group that champions the arts.
It has taken on the task of compiling the public's views over what should go inside the new centre and now need residents to fill in an online survey so they can present its findings.
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Out of just 20 responses so far, all want to see a Basildon museum, full of artefacts from the area.
Susan Randle, secretary of Chase, said: "Everyone seems in favour of having a museum and they definitely want a facility for our amateur theatre groups.
"Everyone also wants to see our town's own arteacts, some of which are ancient.
"They are all over the place and we would like to get them back.
"We have got to give people in Basildon some pride. Who is to say Julius Caesar didn't come here."
Chase formed two years ago after residents expressed fears over the future of arts provision.
The information gathered by the group could be included in any future development plans.
Mrs Randle, 68, of Sparrows Herne, Basildon, added: "We are desperate for arts provision in this town."
If you wish to complete the survey go to www.essexinfo.net/chase-cultural-heritage-for-all-south-essex/
Posted by: Ethan, nr dole farm, on 9:01am Wed 23 Jul 08
Culture...I'm reminded of this quote.
Hanns Johst (1933 play Schlageter: 'Whenever I hear the word ‘culture’, I reach for my Browning')
Basildon IMO needs the publically funded arty farty's about as much as it needs a hole in the head. In these dificult financial times we should be cutting expenditure not increasing it.
Culture...I'm reminded of this quote.
Hanns Johst (1933 play Schlageter: 'Whenever I hear the word ‘culture’, I reach for my Browning')
Basildon IMO needs the publically funded arty farty's about as much as it needs a hole in the head. In these dificult financial times we should be cutting expenditure not increasing it.
Posted by: Robert Hallmann, Hadleigh on 5:43pm Wed 23 Jul 08
BASILDON PRIDE
When Basildon Corporation swept all before it in its effort to eradicate the past and invent a brand new shiny town of the future, it either by design or by ignorance caused most of the ancient manor houses in the area to be destroyed. Of the nine ancient parishes that made up the Basildon district, few of their manor houses have survived. The luckiest of all, Pitsea Hall, is now a wedding venue. Even that was, for a while at least, left to vandals and the weather. Vange Hall, with its most interesting history, now lies under Basildon Golf Course and is, it seems, about to be totally obliterated by a mountain of ‘inert material’ by Council decree.
The most important and most ancient of the manorial seats was Barstable – Berdestapla in Domesday Book. The second element of the name, ‘stapol’, meaning post or pillar, identified and represented a meeting place of a Hundred. In Saxon times it was the administrative centre of an area that ranged from Shenfield and Doddinghurst to the north-west, Chadwell and Tilbury in the south and South Benfleet and Thundersley to the east. Here people would have met from all over the Hundred to obtain justice at the Hundred Moot. Quite likely outdoors under a spreading elm or oak tree, the elders would have sat in judgement for their area. It would also have been the place to which William the Conqueror’s investigators and clerks would have summoned the yeomen and priests of Barstable Hundred’s villages to give accounts of land and possessions for inclusion in the Conqueror's Domesday Book during its compilation in A.D. 1086.’
Both Barstable and Basildon Halls have vanished. They stood quite close together just north of the railway line. Would it not be appropriate to reconnect with the area’s past and build a new Barstable Hall, where its history can live on and where the arts can flourish? Maybe suitably modern, but perhaps more congenial and atmospheric, a large barn-like structure of traditional materials that combines a museum, a stage for music, dance, theatre, talks and other cultural activities. And maybe in front of it a large spreading tree under which to hold outdoor meetings, picnics, etc. It can be done with imagination and a good architect.
Not another ‘Icon’ please…
Robert Hallmann[bold]bold[/bold]
BASILDON PRIDE
When Basildon Corporation swept all before it in its effort to eradicate the past and invent a brand new shiny town of the future, it either by design or by ignorance caused most of the ancient manor houses in the area to be destroyed. Of the nine ancient parishes that made up the Basildon district, few of their manor houses have survived. The luckiest of all, Pitsea Hall, is now a wedding venue. Even that was, for a while at least, left to vandals and the weather. Vange Hall, with its most interesting history, now lies under Basildon Golf Course and is, it seems, about to be totally obliterated by a mountain of ‘inert material’ by Council decree.
The most important and most ancient of the manorial seats was Barstable – Berdestapla in Domesday Book. The second element of the name, ‘stapol’, meaning post or pillar, identified and represented a meeting place of a Hundred. In Saxon times it was the administrative centre of an area that ranged from Shenfield and Doddinghurst to the north-west, Chadwell and Tilbury in the south and South Benfleet and Thundersley to the east. Here people would have met from all over the Hundred to obtain justice at the Hundred Moot. Quite likely outdoors under a spreading elm or oak tree, the elders would have sat in judgement for their area. It would also have been the place to which William the Conqueror’s investigators and clerks would have summoned the yeomen and priests of Barstable Hundred’s villages to give accounts of land and possessions for inclusion in the Conqueror's Domesday Book during its compilation in A.D. 1086.’
Both Barstable and Basildon Halls have vanished. They stood quite close together just north of the railway line. Would it not be appropriate to reconnect with the area’s past and build a new Barstable Hall, where its history can live on and where the arts can flourish? Maybe suitably modern, but perhaps more congenial and atmospheric, a large barn-like structure of traditional materials that combines a museum, a stage for music, dance, theatre, talks and other cultural activities. And maybe in front of it a large spreading tree under which to hold outdoor meetings, picnics, etc. It can be done with imagination and a good architect.
Not another ‘Icon’ please…
Robert Hallmann
Posted by: Robert Hallmann, Hadleigh on 5:51pm Wed 23 Jul 08
BASILDON PRIDE
When Basildon Corporation swept all before it in its effort to eradicate the past and invent a brand new shiny town of the future, it either by design or by ignorance caused most of the ancient manor houses in the area to be destroyed. Of the nine ancient parishes that made up the Basildon district, few of their manor houses have survived. The luckiest of all, Pitsea Hall, is now a wedding venue. Even that was, for a while at least, left to vandals and the weather. Vange Hall, with its most interesting history, now lies under Basildon Golf Course and is, it seems, about to be totally obliterated by a mountain of ‘inert material’ by Council decree.
The most important and most ancient of the manorial seats was Barstable – Berdestapla in Domesday Book. The second element of the name, ‘stapol’, meaning post or pillar, identified and represented a meeting place of a Hundred. In Saxon times it was the administrative centre of an area that ranged from Shenfield and Doddinghurst to the north-west, Chadwell and Tilbury in the south and South Benfleet and Thundersley to the east. Here people would have met from all over the Hundred to obtain justice at the Hundred Moot. Quite likely outdoors under a spreading elm or oak tree, the elders would have sat in judgement for their area. It would also have been the place to which William the Conqueror’s investigators and clerks would have summoned the yeomen and priests of Barstable Hundred’s villages to give accounts of land and possessions for inclusion in the Conqueror's Domesday Book during its compilation in A.D. 1086.’
Both Barstable and Basildon Halls have vanished. They stood quite close together just north of the railway line. Would it not be appropriate to reconnect with the area’s past and build a new Barstable Hall, where its history can live on and where the arts can flourish? Maybe suitably modern, but perhaps more congenial and atmospheric, a large barn-like structure of traditional materials that combines a museum, a stage for music, dance, theatre, talks and other cultural activities. And maybe in front of it a large spreading tree under which to hold outdoor meetings, picnics, etc. It can be done with imagination and a good architect.
Not another ‘Icon’ please…
Robert Hallmann[bold]bold[/bold]
BASILDON PRIDE
When Basildon Corporation swept all before it in its effort to eradicate the past and invent a brand new shiny town of the future, it either by design or by ignorance caused most of the ancient manor houses in the area to be destroyed. Of the nine ancient parishes that made up the Basildon district, few of their manor houses have survived. The luckiest of all, Pitsea Hall, is now a wedding venue. Even that was, for a while at least, left to vandals and the weather. Vange Hall, with its most interesting history, now lies under Basildon Golf Course and is, it seems, about to be totally obliterated by a mountain of ‘inert material’ by Council decree.
The most important and most ancient of the manorial seats was Barstable – Berdestapla in Domesday Book. The second element of the name, ‘stapol’, meaning post or pillar, identified and represented a meeting place of a Hundred. In Saxon times it was the administrative centre of an area that ranged from Shenfield and Doddinghurst to the north-west, Chadwell and Tilbury in the south and South Benfleet and Thundersley to the east. Here people would have met from all over the Hundred to obtain justice at the Hundred Moot. Quite likely outdoors under a spreading elm or oak tree, the elders would have sat in judgement for their area. It would also have been the place to which William the Conqueror’s investigators and clerks would have summoned the yeomen and priests of Barstable Hundred’s villages to give accounts of land and possessions for inclusion in the Conqueror's Domesday Book during its compilation in A.D. 1086.’
Both Barstable and Basildon Halls have vanished. They stood quite close together just north of the railway line. Would it not be appropriate to reconnect with the area’s past and build a new Barstable Hall, where its history can live on and where the arts can flourish? Maybe suitably modern, but perhaps more congenial and atmospheric, a large barn-like structure of traditional materials that combines a museum, a stage for music, dance, theatre, talks and other cultural activities. And maybe in front of it a large spreading tree under which to hold outdoor meetings, picnics, etc. It can be done with imagination and a good architect.
Not another ‘Icon’ please…
Robert Hallmann
Posted by: Mac, Billericay on 1:12pm Thu 24 Jul 08
"20 responses so far"
Not really gripping the regions enthusiasm.
I am not sure they have captured their own enthusiasm judging by the state of their website!
"20 responses so far"
Not really gripping the regions enthusiasm.
I am not sure they have captured their own enthusiasm judging by the state of their website!
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