Letter: Why can't we build properly?

Letter: I have, like a great many people in Shrewsbury, not been in favour of the waste of money sculpture being erected in Mardol Gardens and wondered how the builders, with all the modern technology at their finger tips, got the final alignment so wrong.

These thoughts came to me again whilst on a recent holiday in Gran Canaria.

I was sat in the cathedral in Las Palmas looking up at the massive columns and arches that were started in 1500, and could not help wondering how, in those far off days, the builders managed to bring everything together and in line with the limited tools available to them.

This building is 100 times the size of our sculpture and I know it took a long time to complete with all the various additions by different people, but they got it right.

It does make you wonder doesn't it!

This story has some familiarity with other recent undertakings around our once beautiful town, namely the road resurfacing in Dogpole and the sports village in Sundorne Road to name a couple where completion dates and budgets did not seem to matter.

Will people look at Darwin¹s sculpture in hundreds of years time and ponder over the intricacies of building it, or will it be a pile of rubble long before then I wonder?

Terry Wilkinson

Shrewsbury