Tonight councillors on Nuneaton and Bedworth Council Planning Committee have the chance to vote to save the original buildings that were part of George Eliot’s family farm. Please like this post to ask the Cllrs to keep the original farmstead. 🧵
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We objected to demolition. When you want to build a museum dedicated to an internationally famous writer you don’t pull the actual buildings associated with her early life down. These agricultural buildings are authentic artefacts, and every effort should be made to restore them.
Engraving: George Eliot Archive Outbuildings, which were included in the engraving in John Cross’s first biography of George Eliot in 1885 (building with weather vane).
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Eliot by Samuel Laurence in 1860