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Leicester or York?

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FashionFail · 07/02/2013 14:50

Reburial in Leicester?

Or in York?

(York! York! York!)

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Sailormercury · 07/02/2013 15:57

York all the way!

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FashionFail · 07/02/2013 16:42

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TunipTheVegedude · 07/02/2013 16:47

York, of course.

Seriously, do you think there is actually any chance they will change the existing plans? The e-petition to the government here is getting stonking numbers of signatures. I suspect if it had been Tony Blair in charge he would definitely go for whatever he thought would win votes, but I'm not sure Cameron's as likely to intervene.
(And yes I know in theory it's nothing to do with the PM, but it could be if they decided to make it so, I am certain.)

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usualsuspect · 07/02/2013 16:49

Leicester.

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usualsuspect · 07/02/2013 16:51

If York had wanted him so bad, maybe they should have raised £30 000 to come and find him.

I live in Leicester so am slightly biased.

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mummytime · 07/02/2013 16:58

Leicester!

Don't live there but think I may have parked in that car park.

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thewhistler · 07/02/2013 16:58

Mass in York, bury in leicester.

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meditrina · 07/02/2013 17:00

Normal archaeological practice is nearest consecrated ground to where found.

So Leicester.

Or treat him like a mediaeval saint and pop bits of him in any church that bids enough.

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usualsuspect · 07/02/2013 17:02

Handy that the Leicester Cathedral was so close Grin

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DeepRedBetty · 07/02/2013 17:03

Leicester. Sorry York. But you were on the losing side at the time...

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TunipTheVegedude · 07/02/2013 18:01

Isn't that rather rubbing it in though Betty? Grin

When I try to discuss the issue with my dcs they are simply scandalised that anyone should consider anything other than what Richard himself wanted. Thing is, he would be much more use to Leicester - York doesn't need any more tourists and the Minster certainly doesn't, whereas Leicester Cathedral must need the money. But Leicester City Council has such a poor record in looking after its museums and heritage. Soulsby makes me very cynical so I want Richard to go to York just to annoy him.

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Magrathea · 07/02/2013 18:17

My heart says York

but then I am from Yorkshire and live not far from Middleham

my head says it will probably be Leicester

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IKnowBecauseIWasThere · 07/02/2013 18:21

"Leicester City Council has such a poor record in looking after its museums and heritage"

That'll be the sympathetic setting of Jewry Walls then Grin How did the Roman's manage to build it right in the middle of a ring road next to a four laned underpass?

Still say Leicester though

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IKnowBecauseIWasThere · 07/02/2013 18:22

aaargh at random apostrophe and use of the word ... laned

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TunipTheVegedude · 07/02/2013 18:22

oh you're so lucky to live around there Magrathea Envy

DH harbours an unrealistic desire to move to Coverdale. It is a bit too far from his work.

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TurquoiseCat · 07/02/2013 21:04

Iknowbecauseiwasthere - because the romans used to stay in the holiday inn, don'tcha know!

Anyway, Leicester should have the bones. The guildhall next to the cathedral could have a cracking Tudor exhibition to complement the Richard exhibition.

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PoppyWearer · 07/02/2013 21:07

Leicester, they did all the hard work, they should benefit!

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LineRunner · 07/02/2013 21:28

York.

Or indeed London, for a monarch.

I'm not enamoured of normal archaeological practice for burials being the driving force, partly because that practice has changed so much over the decades in various countries for contingent reasons, and also - related to the former - because I think there has to be a democratic agreement on what is right and proper for the final visible burial of a historical figure so bound up in a nation's sense of heritage.

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WandaDoff · 07/02/2013 21:30

Westminster abbey.

He was a reigning monarch.

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skaen · 07/02/2013 21:30

York. It should be somewhere where he was loved not hacked to death on the battle field .

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Catmint · 07/02/2013 21:30

Leicester!! Coming home on the train last night, a man across the aisle from me was chatting, he was one of the archeologists who found him! And he lives in my town! Frankly I am amazed.

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tribpot · 07/02/2013 21:34

Why not London? I'm an East Midlander from childhood and I live in Yorkshire so I think I have about equal allegiance to both :)

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fossil971 · 07/02/2013 21:35

Leicester. (I've signed the online petition as well).

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usualsuspect · 07/02/2013 21:58

London can sod off, we need all the tourist attractions we can get in Leicester.

You have loads of dead monarchs in London.

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TunipTheVegedude · 07/02/2013 22:08

Let's face it though UsualSuspect, they will waste loads of taxpayers' money on the museum then in 10 years there will be no visitors and they will stop funding it and it will rot and be an embarrassment. No-one is going to want to see the carpark in a year or two once the fuss dies down.
The cathedral will be fine though, and its fundraisers will have their lives greatly improved Smile

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