Shroppie Posted 15 April, 2019 Share Posted 15 April, 2019 Tragic to lose such an iconic building. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 15 April, 2019 Share Posted 15 April, 2019 Sounds like they may be able to save some of it which would be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 16 April, 2019 Share Posted 16 April, 2019 Don’t make them like this anymore. Depressing news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 16 April, 2019 Share Posted 16 April, 2019 #PrayforNotreDame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 16 April, 2019 Share Posted 16 April, 2019 *image* Don’t make them like this anymore. Depressing news Pictures from French firemen on twitter would suggest that window has survived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shroppie Posted 16 April, 2019 Author Share Posted 16 April, 2019 Pictures from French firemen on twitter would suggest that window has survived.Think you're right, but two smaller ones were lost. Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 16 April, 2019 Share Posted 16 April, 2019 Pictures from French firemen on twitter would suggest that window has survived. French firemen are well known for doctoring photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 16 April, 2019 Share Posted 16 April, 2019 I think it got off somewhat 'lightly'. Structure still, in the main, completely intact. A lot of the key monuments and tributes inside are being rescued and have been accounted for, the glass looks to have survived on both sides. No one inside or around was injured or hurt during the episode. Obviously the roof will need to be re-done and the spire will be rebuilt, but it could have been a lot worse. I think I've heard some rich French people are donating around 400m euro to a restoration fund. Hopefully they approach a new contractor and don't use the one who had been restoring the roof recently... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 16 April, 2019 Share Posted 16 April, 2019 #PrayforNotreDame This you Batman? Aly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 16 April, 2019 Share Posted 16 April, 2019 (edited) Edited 16 April, 2019 by whelk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 17 April, 2019 Share Posted 17 April, 2019 It's a great distraction story from more serious news. An iconic building suffered damage, much of it was saved, no one was hurt - and it was not 30 mins from Total Destruction as is being claimed. Sad, but not the end of the world... People gather for vigils and sing hymns across the front pages so corporations throw in millions to help, meanwhile the homeless still starve just around the corner and civil disorder continues. Perhaps Mrs May should look at St Paul's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 17 April, 2019 Share Posted 17 April, 2019 you gotta feel for quasi and Esmeralda now homeless and have got the right hump apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 17 April, 2019 Share Posted 17 April, 2019 It's a great distraction story from more serious news. An iconic building suffered damage, much of it was saved, no one was hurt - and it was not 30 mins from Total Destruction as is being claimed. Sad, but not the end of the world... People gather for vigils and sing hymns across the front pages so corporations throw in millions to help, meanwhile the homeless still starve just around the corner and civil disorder continues. Perhaps Mrs May should look at St Paul's... Yeah let’s not have any museums cos some people are homeless. Philistine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 18 April, 2019 Share Posted 18 April, 2019 Is Phil Istine the guy who built it? I blame him for not putting in sprinklers in 1163. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golactico Posted 22 April, 2019 Share Posted 22 April, 2019 It's awful that this has happened to such a historic and important piece of architecture, but I wish all the millions pledged could instead go to some humanitarian good causes and leave the moneybags Catholic Church to dip into their pockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 23 April, 2019 Share Posted 23 April, 2019 I'm in the middle of a trip round northern Europe and we spent a night in Ypres right in the main square. When you see the pictures of the devastation and compare them to what has been rebuilt then the damage to Nôtre Dame seems quite minor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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