Yesterday I was told about the recent demolition of Thomson House. There had been at least one letter of protest in the local paper and the planning department had been contacted, but the mural was completely unprotected and has now been totally destroyed. What were the JCB drivers thinking as they hacked their way through the mosaic? This photo comes from norman preis on Flickr (many thanks) and as one of the Flickr photographers commented, what were Cadw doing, taking a tea break? This destruction is exactly the same as going into an art gallery and taking a pair of scissors to a canvas. Heartbreaking. We can't keep everything but it seems strange that something so utterly Welsh - and beautiful at that - can bite the dust without any challenge. Perhaps someone from Cadw will tell me that a photographic record was made of the mural before demolition? Flying pigs (hope I'm wrong).
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