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I hope it doesn't end up an exhibit in a museum. Part of what I find fascinating about The Stone is how this previously very important item is now half-forgotten and shoved out of the way. The rather odd juxtaposition of the run-down sports shop only added to the appeal.
Pete of London | 15.11.11 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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For something that seems to have been an obstruction for much of the time, it ought to stay where it is - as an obstruction to Minerva!
Haven't they got architects who can design around it in situ?
allotmentqueen | 15.11.11 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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I can tell this may put me in a minority; but a stone that thousands of people walk past without noticing it would finally be given due respect by being put into a context which highlights its historical significance.
Roehamster | Homepage | 15.11.11 - 9:18 a.m. | #
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Hmm...
being shifted around for being an obstruction to increasing volumes of traffic, being bombed but surviving and finally being shoved around in the interests of corporate profit... It's a fairly accurate reflection of the city as a whole I think, n'est pas?
Audrey | 15.11.11 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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The stone is only 'symbolic' - I'm with Roehamster.
B | 15.11.11 - 11:08 a.m. | #
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Given that it's been shoved around for centuries this isn't sacrilegious. I'm more bothered by St Swithin's being demolished around it in the Sixties. After that, it could go anywhere.
I agree that its incongruity in the street is part of its charm, but that last shot shows the problem. You can barely even see it right now.
Scott | Homepage | 15.11.11 - 11:24 a.m. | #
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There must be a whole group of parents out there who like me have had to search this out having grown up in London and never having heard of it. The reason for recent pilgrimages by youngsters of a certain age and their parents is that the stone features in the book Stoneheart by Charlie Fletcher which is about various statues and monuments in London coming to life and waging war on each other. When I asked (this would be a few years back now) for directions to it at the Museum of London (as well as to the Minotaur) I got the impression that we were just one of many such enquiries. There was talk of a film of the book at one point but that clearly hasn't happened.
pbmum | 15.11.11 - 12:03 p.m. | #
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They should put it back where it was originally. Right in the middle of Cannon Street. That'll show everybody. :-) Seriously. Put it back.
Ileen | 15.11.11 - 2:24 p.m. | #
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When the stone was moved from the centre of the street, the majority of it was supposed to have been buried. Dig that up, reattach the tip and stick it proud in the middle of the street!
juamei | 15.11.11 - 2:39 p.m. | #
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Move it.
Michael | 15.11.11 - 5:09 p.m. | #
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Well the building that it's in doesn't look like it'd be any great loss in it's remodelling, so if it gives the stone more prominence elsewhere then I say go for it.
On the other hand, if they were to build something sympathetic to the stone where it currently is... *breaks off to the sound of hollow laughter*
CornishCockney | 15.11.11 - 8:22 p.m. | #
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Just wondering - if the building is imminently going to be demolished, why is it 'to let'? Who'd be desperate enough to let it?
As for the stone, for heaven's sake, it's just an ugly 60s office block and the stone is almost invisible. I don't see how moving it because its container is going to be demolished is any different or worse than moving it three hundred years ago because, to coin a phrase, it would push the street over capacity and introduce significant delays to traffic.
swirlythingy | Homepage | 15.11.11 - 10:12 p.m. | #
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Peter Ackroyd in his book "London: the Biography" writes a very interesting history of London Stone, pp 18-19.
Vivien | 16.11.11 - 12:44 a.m. | #
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It's a stone - what you build buildings from: why can't it be incorporated into whatever is to be built on the site?
Timbo | 16.11.11 - 7:49 a.m. | #
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