Thank you Warner Brothers

I wish to thank Warner Brothers, in particular Alex who very kindly agreed to meet with me, who kindly listened with interest as I rattled off the story behind the founding of the Undershaw Preservation Trust, our efforts, goals and our battle with developers. More importantly, and hopefully it was one step forward to better exposure and the opportunity to be able to leave the details with Alex who kindly offered to pass them on.

This is none other than a coincidence, or is it! Sherlock Holmes the sequel being filmed on my doorstep and the opportunity to be able wander in, albeit under very strict and tight security, explain the very essence of me being there, being escorted from A to B and back again but having the opportunity to be on the very site with it all happening around me. One amazing experience if nothing else.

I have since heard from Alex who sent the following e-mail: "Good morning Lynn". Your e-mail has been forwarded to the Producers. As yet, I have not heard back, but will now follow up and report back to you. If you have not heard from me by Tuesday of next week, please get back in touch again as the crew will be filming at another location I am managing and I will have all the 'bosses' in one place and readily available! All the best Lynn.

Undershaw Website

Should you have been directed straight to this blog then you may not realise that we now have a website which is: www.saveundershaw.com

The Judicial Review

Our solicitor has confirmed that paperwork pertaining to the Judicial Review has now been received by Mary Orton, Chief Executive at Waverley Borough Council. WBC have got until 14th November to comment on our representation.

My Short Pilgrimage to Undershaw

I took a stroll down to Undershaw yesterday. To my disappointment, the building still appeared to have no real security as I noticed bottles and beer cans strewn in the driveway. A clear indication of unwanted visitors. Broken windows still hadn't been boarded up thus allowing the winter elements to attack the building for another stretch. It was most apparent that signs of development had not commenced.

I was armed with a camera and took several general photo's within the grounds, but nothing of great importance. The biggest surprise was a massive plant that I found in amongst the overgrown trees. It looked like some sort of bog/pond plant, probably put there by the hoteliers. I can't imagine it being there in Conan Doyle's time although it towered above me like some sort of giant octupus, it could be several years old, but how many?

Stephen Fry and Twitter

He has done it again! Not only the statement he supplied us back in March, which incidentally can be seen on our website www.saveundershaw.com but Mr Fry has backed us with a tweet on Twitter: http://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/25681586867 which has caused a massive response to the website and our Facebook page. The tweet actually caused the flow of traffic to the site to increase in a couple of days by 1,500% which apparently was a mega occurence and totally unheard of. When I received this piece of news from my web designer I automatically went into overdrive and thought 'Guinness Book of Records' and what publicity for Undershaw this would be. Sadly my thoughts were dashed when I received an e-mail saying although this was mega, it was not enough to make the record books. Whilst on the subject of the lovely Mr Fry, he has been cast as Mycroft in Guy Ritchie's sequel.

Since Monday of last week the Facebook page has increased from 77 to 552 which was all down to the help from Mr Fry. We held an Awareness Day on Facebook on 1st October calling on all our friends to post the link. In response to this we had a further 52 visits to the Facebook page.

The comments on the website were also incredible, since Monday we received over 100 comments from all over the world. Your comments on this site are very valuable to us so please continue to let us know what this building actually means to you and your thoughts on Waverley's decision to allow the development.