Store as old as Canada destroyed in London riots

[gsdx]

This is so sad. This store opened its doors the same year that Canada became a Dominion, and it's gone within hours.

LONDON - For more than 140 years, the House of Reeves was a landmark in Croydon, a family-run business that supplied generations of families as the area changed from a small town to a London suburb.

On Tuesday, it was a smouldering ruin, reduced to a shell in minutes by rioters who surged through the neighbourhood, looting and burning.

"I'm the fifth generation to run this place," said owner Graham Reeves, looking puffy-eyed and shocked. "I have two daughters. They would have been the sixth."

Edvin Reeves first opened the store in Croydon — which was then a separate town nine miles (15 kilometres) south of London and is now one of the capital's larger suburbs — in 1867.The business prospered, and he was able to hand the store down to his descendants, who kept it going through two World Wars and the Great Depression. The store, which employs around 15 people, is now run by Graham and his older brother Trevor.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/historic-144-old-family-store-croydon-destroyed-london-152148841.html

 

[healingduck]

If these people are so mad at the police and government, why wouldn't they attack government and political buildings? Oh wait, that would require thinking... I saw on the news that they plan to have tons of police officers on the streets in London tonight. In my opinion, they need to bring in the army or something. I don't see the police being able to handle this. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech, or even what caused this. That just gave them a reason to be destructive and wreak havoc throughout London.

 

[Paws]

Who cares about a store if a 60 year old man is beaten down by looters and in critical condition, a 26 year old young man is shot in his car and an injured Asian is robbed?

 

[HoodedRat]

Who cares about a store if a 60 year old man is beaten down by looters and in critical condition, a 26 year old young man is shot in his car and an injured Asian is robbed?

They are inter-connected and all part of the same thing.

Just think that building survived the Blitz only to destroyed by brain-dead rioting scum.

 

[Ram]

They can build it again?

It's sad though.

 

[Serenx55]

A bunch of African immigrants on welfare showing appreciation to the country which took them in.

 

[teadrinker]

That's very sad, but the store can be rebuilt, and continue operating. Its current building may have burnt, but the store can keep going, assuming the owners have the will to re-open it when all this madness is over.

It's a messy business, these London riots. In a sense the disaffected youths are getting back at a system which has ignored and sidelined them for far too long. It's easy to blame them, and yes, they are the ones doing the looting and rioting, but in fact this has been building for a long time, and the UK Government has been turning a blind eye.

I wonder how long before they impose a curfew, or bring the army in, or declare a national state of emergency?

-T.

 

[Sam Blum]

There can be no rationalizing of this completely unacceptable behaviour. There is no reason in a country such as Great Britain is at present for anyone to riot and pillage and destroy. There are choices to be made in every man's life, and while many have much harsher lives than others, the consequences for those choices must be the responsibility of the man who makes his own decisions. There are, for pity's sake, those who choose to put nose to the grindstone and scratch out a living , educate their children to behave well and to advance just a little, rather than choose to steal and ruin what they don't have.

And an old building can't be replaced - a new replica can be eventually built, but to rebuild and oversee the construction, survive financially during that extended period, continue with life in general and then re-stock, pay the INCREASED insurance, and then find the desire to once again serve the community that destroyed your family's inheritance would be an enormous ask. Buildings are importnat for more reason than that they look nice and that they hold a history: They hold real significance to people who have become frail and less certain of their surroundings. In Germany, it has been shown that the importance to the elderly of maintaining street scapes is immense, helping people to orientate themselves and participate in their communities. A building is important because of what it means to and does for the individuals in the community - it facilitates life and indepence.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

Store as old as Canada destroyed in London riots

interestin media spin on title kind of harry potterish or once upon a time

1867 was not a good year fa many folk

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back ta folk learnin what do when their great educate collection of idiots no can add up or figure out when folk got headache or many thang

guess give politicans somethang ta do on their holiday while rest jump hoops tryin figure out no it a rabbit? or bat? or oooh 18th century with nice teacups!!!!!

piffs

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

There can be no rationalizing of this completely unacceptable behaviour. There is no reason in a country such as Great Britain is at present for anyone to riot and pillage and destroy. There are choices to be made in every man's life, and while many have much harsher lives than others, the consequences for those choices must be the responsibility of the man who makes his own decisions. There are, for pity's sake, those who choose to put nose to the grindstone and scratch out a living , educate their children to behave well and to advance just a little, rather than choose to steal and ruin what they don't have.

And an old building can't be replaced - a new replica can be eventually built, but to rebuild and oversee the construction, survive financially during that extended period, continue with life in general and then re-stock, pay the INCREASED insurance, and then find the desire to once again serve the community that destroyed your family's inheritance would be an enormous ask. Buildings are importnat for more reason than that they look nice and that they hold a history: They hold real significance to people who have become frail and less certain of their surroundings. In Germany, it has been shown that the importance to the elderly of maintaining street scapes is immense, helping people to orientate themselves and participate in their communities. A building is important because of what it means to and does for the individuals in the community - it facilitates life and indepence.

britain is failin country fa eons ans was neva great

it shame is noted up ta taday along with other countrys what blind as cretins out da backsides of bats ta their own Not can say it so rudeeeeeeee

hey if it keep folk slap slelfs on back ans look other way ans spin out lot fancy drip keep systems what criminal beyond reason goin

well noone see this post so

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Univeristys ya no got any souls!!!! what century ya gonna figure it out?

tut tut of ta bed no cookys fa you

 

[theFallenGod]

Animals... one and all... the police should just start shooting at them as if they were rabid beasts...

You want to act like rabid animals you should get treated like rabid animals.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

Animals... one and all... the police should just start shooting at them as if they were rabid beasts...

You want to act like rabid animals you should get treated like rabid animals.

thang is if da a joke it is real in world even by just stroke a pen all da time everyday with out no end or folk just say somethang stooopid on media whateva

yep thems is red folk!
' red folk ya sayyyyyyyyyy?? '
Yep red folk!
' BANG '

love internet it so homey

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got buckets fill water lot of romes burnin while da pens pickin their noses fa long time now

ooh look
' COOOR '
ans not recycled!
' ya not mean? '
yeah

 

[HoodedRat]

Animals... one and all... the police should just start shooting at them as if they were rabid beasts...

You want to act like rabid animals you should get treated like rabid animals.

Animals?

I can't remember the last time I heard of animals - rabid, or otherwise - hurling projectiles at the police and looting shops for electrical goods.

 

[ronboy]

I hope that the House of Reeves can rebuild. Family owned department stores have mostly disappeared in the United States. We are a nation of chain stores, dominated by giant corporate entities such as Walmart and Target (which are a cut below the traditional department stores), and other corporate giants such as Sears, JC Penney, and the new Macy's (perhaps the saddest tale in American retailing, as a once-proud retail name was plastered of hundreds of mediocre stores from coast to coast, diluting the value and prestige of RH Macy's retail legacy).

 

[BearBoi]

It's a messy business, these London riots. In a sense the disaffected youths are getting back at a system which has ignored and sidelined them for far too long. It's easy to blame them, and yes, they are the ones doing the looting and rioting, but in fact this has been building for a long time, and the UK Government has been turning a blind eye.

Apologists are one step away from sympathizers.

 

[The White Stripe]

Damn, that makes me mad. I've always loved the idea of preserving old buildings. Its a shame its gone now.

 

[kallipolis]

I'm going to be a complete pedant here and remind everyone that there is no such country as Great Britain.

Pedant your self a little further and elucidate so that we, the great unwashed can learn something, worth learning from you.

 

[kallipolis]

Great Britain is the name of the main island of the country of the United Kingdom.

Its like calling Japan, Honshu, or calling Denmark, Greenland.

Geographically speaking Great Britain is a valid, and normal reference for the union of Scotland with England, and the principality of Wales.

That the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the legal context, is of no great importance except perhaps for those British citizens resident in Northern Ireland who normally prefer The United Kingdom, or the UK as their preferred reference point.

 

[HoodedRat]

Britain hasn't really been 'Great', in any meaningful sense of the word, since the end of WWII.

 

[kallipolis]

Yes, i know, i'm from this land. But the talking was about a country, not a geographical entity.
We validly use the UK and Britain to refer to our nation, not Great Britain, as the latter specifically omits the northern irish. So when speaking about our nation, the correct and valid references are the UK or Britain, anything else is not valid, its just understood, which is why i claimed i was being a pedant, doesn't change the fact that Great Britain is wrongly used to call a nation.

And Wales is a country, not a principality, Northern Ireland is the principality in the UK make-up.



Well, come on now, its important to pedants too.

A country is also a geographical entity.

Great Britain is regularly, and validly used to describe Scotland, England and Wales.

Great Britain is not a nation but a geographical entity that describes three nations that make up that geographical entity.

The British nation is the collective title for the nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which form a union under a common British citizenship.

In relation to Wales in its relationship with England, as a principality ensured that the Welsh flag did not appear on the British Union flag, at the time of England's union with Scotland (1707).

Wales is still not represented on the Union flag despite the UK government returning a legal identity to Wales in 1948 which had not existed for hundreds of years following the Act of Union with Scotland in 1707, after which all laws passed at Westminster had been designated as applicable to either England or Scotland without any designation for Wales.

Northern Ireland has never been a principality rather was formerly part of the Kingdom of Ireland that entered into Union with The United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1801, dissolved under the Government of Ireland Acts 1920 as amended, that created The Irish Free State, and Northern Ireland which continued to remain an integral part of the United Kingdom with its own parliament and government; later dissolved and replaced by the Northern Ireland Executive.

How's that for accuracy and pedantry? Your return swing is waited.