Property News · November 24, 2017

Let’s move to Hereford: ‘Its heyday is yet to come’


This isolated city near the Welsh border has a fine bone structure and hidden treasuresWhat’s going for it? There’s a marvellous carving in Hereford Cathedral of actual pigs in actual blankets. Pigs in blankets! I wish I could show it to you. I mention this only to demonstrate that Hereford is a city that hides many treasures. First, it is a city, although it does sometimes betray a whiff of provincialism. Nonetheless, its relative isolation out towards the Welsh border, and the independent character and wealth that have grown over the centuries, have given the city a fine – if not beautiful – bone structure of civic architecture in ruddy stone. Recent decades, though, have not been quite so kind to Hereford: ring roads, economic sagginess and ill-advised paving schemes or public art, many attempts have been made to “improve” the city; they have not. There are glimmers of revival, though, the barest inklings of an understanding of its fine, unique character: the cattle it has bred for centuries, say, or the hidden beauty of some of its streets. Hereford’s heyday, I feel, is yet to come. Related: Let’s move to Blaenafon, Gwent: ‘Money and hard work have spruced it up’ Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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