[Tealeaf]

The problem is that of the buildings that we have in Accy/Ossy/Church etc do not appear to fall into the category that the BBC appears to require....these are 1) The building should have sufficient architectural/historical merit, 2) the building should be going some way into delapidation 3) that the building can be restored 4) that the funding to do so is otherwise proving difficult to obtain.

I can really only think of two buildings - adjoining - that currently fall within this criiteria, and those are the old canal warehouse at Church and the Commercial Hotel next door. The former is probably the best example of Georgian canal architecture on the longest canal in England, at roughly it's significant half way point, while one of the reasons (I understand) for the building of the hotel was for watering & accomodation for passengers travelling by barge packet boats in the period between the opening of the canal and the opening of the railway.

Of course, there have been other buildings which would otherwise have met the requirements (above)...but as we all know, they've been pulled down (make your own list up).