Councillors make
a moot
point
Many people will agree with Appleby in Westmorland councillor Hugh Potts in his opposition to the plan to change to mellow yellow the colour of the town`s Moot Hall (pictured below) .
A similar plan a few years ago by the National Trust for its Wordsworth House in Cockermouth(below) was opposed by those local people who, like Councillor Potts, preferred the black and white that had existed for as long as people remembered.
But
the opposition came to nothing and mellow yellow went ahead.
The
changes in both towns appear to have originated in some woke urge
from a trendy group many miles away to change the colour of the buildings to
the politically correct colour i.e. the colour they buildings were when they were built centuries ago.
If that is the case, it is certainly very difficult to see the Appleby change as “a novel look to the future of the town”, the view of Mayor Gareth Hayes.
Many people will much prefer Councillor Potts` view:“Not to my taste… and not right too”.
