Author: Andrea Martin-Banks

Is there a chance Hough Hall will actually survive now?

Is there a chance Hough Hall will actually survive now?

This is the most historic building in Moston, North Manchester. Thanks to the people on Facebook for letting us know that the beautiful old hall is back on the market.

Now this could be the time to fight to save the building finally…we at the Preservation Society have battled for 2 years to protect this 500-600 year old building.

This is part of what Right Move have to say in their sales pitch…

Potential
The property is sold on an unconditional basis only however, potential buyers may wish to consider a range of opportunities for development of the land and Hough Hall itself. Whilst the site and buildings could well lend themselves to commercial uses a residential scheme may be possible with the refurbishment and development of Hough Hall. If sold for new build it could to comprise 12 houses and six flats, but it would appear planning permission would have to be obtained.”

We have given some shots of Hough Hall courtesy of Matt Holmes (www.facebook.com/TheDerelictExplorer)

#moston #manchester #houghhall #derelict #save the hall

https://leighgbankspreservationsociety.blog/the-artist-and-the-sadness-behind-the-marie-celeste-mansion/

STOP ‘MONSTERING’ OUR CHANCE OF GETTING BACK TO THE FUTURE

STOP ‘MONSTERING’ OUR CHANCE OF GETTING BACK TO THE FUTURE

While social media monsters scream from their desktops that the world-as-we-knew-it is being buried under government, ‘big pharma’, journalistic and fat cat lies’…

And while they gnash madly as they describe ambitions to shoot little Bill Gates ‘submarines of control’ into our veins …  it looks like the world might be re-setting all around us.

We just might be on the verge of a journey back to some kind of normality, although I  do doubt that we will ever return to 100pc of what we had before.

After all, shocks like the coronavirus pandemic – and there is no doubt the shock is real, even if you don’t believe the pandemic is – happen very rarely and must have permanent and far-reaching changes for us all.

Right now as far as output is concerned the world economy is heading for recovery but the legacy of Covid-19 will deform and mutate global any growth.

Factory and service jobs are already being done by robots. And it will get worse. White-collar workers are unlikely to swap their firesides for sterile offices and  Governments will undoubtedly play a larger role in the lives of us all.

Yes, keyboard warriors you are right! Our safety nets and personal rights need patching up as soon as possible.

But the outrageous lying, fact bending, twisted, scare-mongering, freakish emoji -ridden, smiley assassin of social media need to be brought to heel just like all other traditional media is in this ever-spinning world.

It is clear the one thing social media doesn’t care about is The Truth. All its Fat Controllers care about is collecting our data and ‘running’ our lives. Isn’t that what  amateur pundits claim the powers-that-be invented the pandemic to do?

But surely we all have to say that the British government is right to explore mass rapid testing and vaccine passports right now.

As long as they do not become a permanent fixture in our lives then they may well  speed our return to ‘normality’.

Then there is the new one-shot vaccine which could allow us foreign travel.

Boris has raised hopes by revealing what professional pundits are treating with caution by describing it as a mass testing blitz.

But at least we are not being hysterical about it behind little round grumpy and angry faces.

Yes, people soon will be able to collect free Covid tests  which give results in just minutes. Everyone will be able to order kits at home, get them through  work, at schools, or through testing centres across the country.

And as I write this four million Covid-19 injections were poked into American arms. This too is being seen as track back to ‘normal life’..

About 106 million people have had one dose in the US while 61 million are fully dosed. Whether by luck or design, President Joe Biden has actually lived up to his major promise to get out vaccines fast.

And that’s not to be Trumped at! No!

Let’s jump on the bus of hope, pay the fare and go where it takes us.

Then, when we arrive, demand our democratic rights to investigate and interrogate those who chose our route home.

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Still, the nightmare is not over though. The emergence of new coronavirus variations in Africa have contributed to an increase in deaths across the continent.

At least 40 countries have now seen a second wave of the pandemic.

And India’s health ministry has said that it has recorded an all-time high 103,558 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily tally.

Mumbai, India’s financial capital and the capital of Maharashtra state, is now under stringent lock-down.  

But what of the long-term future?

It is a fact that we are going to have to learn to live with Covid. The rub is that, whether you believe it exists or not, it’s going to be with you.

And we only want constant tests and vaccine passports for as short a time as possible.

We don’t want to become prisoners of this Dystopian world that has ‘walled’ us into our homes and our countries.

Covid could lead us to become the victims of Health Apartheid, Finally the world is separated.

And cynicism is setting in everywhere too, not least on social media.

People are still openly breaking the “rules” in the UK, which automatically makes them redundant.

And in a way who can blame them?

All our civil liberties and being mashed up.  If you look at it as cold hard fact, we are simply banned from meeting our families in their homes.

This is inhumane and cruel and against every right we have held close since society began.

If it continues it is a  new form of Nazism.

The death rate is nearing single figures and those who are vulnerable have been vaccinated and the R-rate remains where it needs to be despite schools reopening and rule flouting.

I say open the doors! Let us out! Let us discover the future, no matter how frightening it is… after all it is our future.

#covid19 #keyboardwarriors #SouthAfrica #India #vaccination #BillGates #foreigntravel #covidpassports

Equality is no laughing matter! so, Leigh and Rodney analyse a couple of sexist jokes!

Equality is no laughing matter! so, Leigh and Rodney analyse a couple of sexist jokes!

Don’t shoot the messengers, join in the rant… do Europe’s politicians need a jab to the nose for refusing 746,000,000 people a shot in the arm? And what about euthanasia? Do we have a right to say when our time is done? Can it ever by kinder for our friends, family and society in general to call the shots on when you leave this life? And don’t forget the tunnel under the Irish Sea.

#equality #sexistjokes euthanasia #Europserefusesthevaccine #dope #canada

A Mother of a show as Leigh defends men and the Glorious Andrea makes an attack on Amazon with Rodney…

A Mother of a show as Leigh defends men and the Glorious Andrea makes an attack on Amazon with Rodney…

Ladies! join the Gentlemen’s Rant. What did actually happen at the Sarah Everard vigil and was the debacle disrespectful to Sarah’s memory?

Was it reasonable to call for a 6p.m. curfew for men?

The Glorious Andrea

#SarahEverard #mothersday #equality #womensrights amazon #mensrights

Only Fools and Horses…but who is actually talking horse sense?

Only Fools and Horses…but who is actually talking horse sense?

Nurses are heroic, but should they be threatening to go on strike at this time in our recovery from Covid?

And lots more to have a shout about, the best opinion show on TV today.

Take a look, it’s funny, it’s shocking and above all it’s entertaining.

A BIT OF BACKGROUND:

Rodney Hearth is the boss at Air TV International, a station that goes back across the decades and is a big pull in the US, Europe and the UK.

Leigh G Banks is a former national newspaper reporter and editor and is a newspaper and magazine designer. And is making a name for himself in TV documentaries. Leigh also writes and edits https://leighgbankspreservationsociety.blog/

#covid #NHS #nurses #LGBGT #shameofthehorseracingworld

The Harry and Meghan world of privacy… let’s find public adulation by falling out with everybody and going on Oprah!

The Harry and Meghan world of privacy… let’s find public adulation by falling out with everybody and going on Oprah!

HARRY and Meghan appear to be motivated by grudges, image building, self-obsession and pretending to be the victims of stolen privacy.

Oh, I wonder what Oprah would say? Oh, and, of course, they are obsessed by  getting money to spend in the celebrity land they’ve chosen to make their twee middle-class empty lives in.

But what are they hoping to win in the war they appear to be waging against the Royal Family they said they wanted to leave behind?

Now going on telly and denouncing  94-year-old Queen and her ailing husband, 99 as liars works doesn’t it. And denouncing the press, the one thing they need to promote their twisted convoluted pretence of not being celebrities is just silly.

But they are now fallen out with family, her husband her ’s family, her former staff and a Press and public which greeted her wedding to Harry with rapturous adulation.

Yes, they’ve got it right haven’t they?

#Harry #Megan #harryandmegan #royals #Oprah #privacy #LA #thepress #celebrity #diana

Rodney and Leigh’s banking special. They’ve got your money! And you can bank on it being a problem getting it back

Rodney and Leigh’s banking special. They’ve got your money! And you can bank on it being a problem getting it back

‘Give me money, that’s what I want…’ Well that’s what we want too, you bankers.

Like any other business, if you make a mistake admit it and pay what you owe – and treat everybody in the same way.

We have put billions of pounds in your coffers during lock-down and yet you keep threatening us with negative interest rates and charge us a fortune for loans.

You are closing branches, getting rid of staff and we are either dealing with robots or ‘robotic staff’ who sit at home watching Loose Women and sipping coffee instead of helping customers.

And now your Press Offices can’t even be arsed to talk to the Press.

Here Rodney and Leigh tell exactly what they think of you.

#banks #bankers #HSBC #Santander #whataloadofbankers

https://leighgbankspreservationsociety.blog/this-virus-has-no-dominion-as-bankers-turn-dead-eyes-away-from-the-bereaved/
https://leighgbankspreservationsociety.blog/locked-down-by-the-virus-of-hostile-silly-bankers-who-dont-care/
https://leighgbankspreservationsociety.blog/no-magic-if-you-bank-on-penn-y-and-teller-for-your-own-dosh/
https://leighgbankspreservationsociety.blog/tourettes-and-tantrums-as-more-lock-down-victims-find-themselves-one-question-away-from-banking-oblivion/