National Trust seeks access to Whitehall amid heritage concerns

In yes­ter­day’s Sun­day Guardian, his­to­ry en­thu­si­ast Pa­tri­cia Bisses­sar called for White­hall and the oth­er build­ings com­pris­ing the Mag­nif­i­cent Sev­en around the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain to be pre­served and re­pur­posed as her­itage at­trac­tions.

She ar­gued that us­ing White­hall as the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter had placed a strain on the age­ing struc­ture, con­tribut­ing to prob­lems with mois­ture and mould. Bisses­sar pro­posed trans­form­ing it in­to a na­tion­al mu­se­um, open­ing it to vis­i­tors for tours and cul­tur­al events, and es­tab­lish­ing a main­te­nance fund to help pre­serve the coun­try’s his­toric build­ings.

As we con­tin­ue on, we hear from the Na­tion­al Trust, which is in charge of pre­serv­ing this coun­try’s his­tor­i­cal sites.