World Heritage List status guarantees not only protection, but is a money spinner of the best kind, offering publicity and promotion beyond a tourist board’s wildest dreams - Gordon Haynes looks the bid to get the famous Loch Ness on The List.
4 Jul 2007
Gordon Haynes
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World Heritage List status guarantees not only protection, but is a money spinner of the best kind, offering publicity and promotion beyond a tourist board’s wildest dreams.
England’s first free World Heritage Site pod-cast launches today, taking the listener on an hour long tour through eight centuries of the city’s history, narrated by heritage expert Loyd Grossman. It celebrates the Liverpool’s 800th year and the third anniversary of the city’s inscription by UNESCO on the World Heritage list as ‘a maritime mercantile city of universal value’ to world culture. Liverpool is one of just four UK cities with World Heritage status and was listed by UNESCO because of the port’s pivotal role during the time of Britain’s greatest global influence from the 18th century to the early 20th century.
An erstwhile applied arts practitioner and teacher, Gordon is an art lover (and buyer) who lives in an Art Deco world. He's a graduate and associate of MCAD and ex-faculty of ECA. One time Chief Landscape Architect at Edinburgh District Council, his designs range from a woodland in Fife to the largest roof garden in Europe and the restoration of Alloa's 'Versailles on the Forth'. Further afield, his portfolio includes a zoo in Nigeria, the green bits of a hotel in Brussels and visualisations for a city extension and reclamation scheme in Beirut. In a move that some called crazy, he relinquished a multi-million pound Millennium Project and fled to the Highlands to run a 1920s lodge as a hotel. He has written for many journals and also written a booklet Glen Moriston: a heritage guide, for the Glenmoriston Heritage Group. He’s been batting at no. 3 for England since about 1957.
