08-09-2011, 01:39 AM
I took part in the public enquiry for the Gateway at Arbeia and there were some greater powers involved at that project, and there are greater powers of local government still involved as yet.
I was for the gateway at that time however that is not the original planned building, and it was archaeologists that took everyone involved off to Germany where afterward we have a lot of Xanten influence.
Though it was good to get the thing built I still say yet that the gate would not have been of that type, in fact also in a region of so much limestone there would not have been white rendered buildings such as the barracks nor also a white bathhouse at Segedunum but then when you build in breeze blocks you have to hide them somehow.
I was for the gateway at that time however that is not the original planned building, and it was archaeologists that took everyone involved off to Germany where afterward we have a lot of Xanten influence.
Though it was good to get the thing built I still say yet that the gate would not have been of that type, in fact also in a region of so much limestone there would not have been white rendered buildings such as the barracks nor also a white bathhouse at Segedunum but then when you build in breeze blocks you have to hide them somehow.
Brian Stobbs
