We n 1951, it came up the BBC desired to erect a 229-metre tv transmitter from the Northern Hessary Tor towards the Dartmoor. Female Sylvia Sayer, chair of Dartmoor Preservation Organization, is incensed. It might, she composed, become “landscape-massacre to the an over usually unbelievable level”. The brand new “alien” visibility would-be “a perpetual reminder of these modern ‘civilisation’ and therefore people arrived at a national playground so you can disregard”.

Even after Sayer’s powerful rhetoric, their venture from the mast – the woman “earliest big attempt for the activist government” – were unsuccessful. (more…)

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