Beamish’s contempt for Cork
- This topic has 26 replies, 11 voices, and was last updated 22 years, 2 months ago by
.
- Posts
the only reaon they invited you there was to tell you to shut the site, i have to agree with everyone else the wings look as they should.. i presume “a lick of paint” was only a phrase
the back looks terrible is it seen?
well done i guess keep it up
whatever happened to that site a few years ago http://www.realcork.com, some guy shaming the Cork Corpo about litter and crappy paving etc.
Originally posted by chewy
the only reaon they invited you there was to tell you to shut the site, i have to agree with everyone else the wings look as they should.. i presume “a lick of paint” was only a phrasethe back looks terrible is it seen?
well done i guess keep it up
The back is seen – not from South Main Street where the front is – but from Crosses Green Quay, Wandesford Quay and French’s Quay. To see where these are have a look at the map of Cork available at http://www.corkcorp.ie/maps/cc_main_map_03.html.
Thanks for the interest,
RandlePMcMurphy,
BeamishOriginally posted by anto
whatever happened to that site a few years ago http://www.realcork.com, some guy shaming the Cork Corpo about litter and crappy paving etc.Interesting Anto, I was that “some guy”!
I put realcork.com together and it got a lot of publicity too. It was a personal project which grew very quickly and I was unable to maintain the momentum it generated (I had a day job too!).
Glad to see it is still remembered!
Thanks,
RandlePMcMurphy,
BeamishOriginally posted by anto
so does Cork still need such a website? Things have improved in the meantime?Some things have improved Anto – a lot of the potholes have gone (many of the roads have been re-surfaced) but the streets are still a mess. The main street has been completely re-surfaced as well. New paving and a new road layout have improved it to a certain extent, however the new paving has, in many places, been layed carelessly. Gaps in between the cut stone paving have been filled with tarmac! And the paving is not being maintained so already it is stained with chewing gum, and drink stains – in many European cities paving like this is maintained by power washing it nightly – this is not being done in Cork so it is deteriorating rapidly.
So, in short, to answer your question Anto, a site like realcork.com is still needed despite some improvements in the city.
RandlePMcMurphy
BeamishHi all,
just a quick mail to report back on the progress of the campaign to get Beamish to do something about the appalling state of their Head Office in Cork. Doing a web search on Google now for the term Beamish and Crawford – the Beamish site comes up at no. 3! It comes up at no. 4 on Dogpile, no. 6 on Yahoo and no. 9 on search.msn.com.
This is an amazing result – thanks to everyone who has helped to make this happen – a few more links and we’ll make no. 1.
I also found an interesting report on the website of Scottish & Newcastle (the owners of Beamish and Crawford plc) – it is called Full Principles and Values Report (available at http://www.scottish-newcastle.com/sn/cr/crpublications/principles/) where it says Scottish & Newcastle “are also fully aware of our responsibilities to the environment and the community”. I sent them an email to corporate.responsibility@scottish-newcastle.co.uk asking them how they square this report with the pictures of the Beamish Head Office on the site.
I await their reply with interest!
Cheers,
RandlePMcMurphy.
Beamish
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
