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Originally Posted by jaysay
The trouble is Alan councils just don't have the kind of money needed to renovate these buildings
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Originally Posted by susie123
The problem here Alan is that heritage can go back for many hundreds of years so a buildng like the Con Club not much more than 100 years old if that is pretty low priority. In Oz the heritage doesn't go back more than 200 years (correct me if I'm wrong) so there are probably fewer buildings to think about preserving.
Just looked at the English Heritage listing for the Con Club and it says "interior of little interest" so they wouldn't worry about the ballroom at all.
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I think the Con Club has a quite a special place in a lot of townsfolks hearts as many of them remember dancing there and going to "dos" of one kind or another. My parents met there and got together at a dance and I also went a few times for dances connected to school and then to work as a caterer sometimes.
It seems a shame to lose it to dereliction. Money for silly marble benches on Broadway and other white elephants around town can be found when necessary but when they just dont want to do something they hide behind the cries of "no money".