Jan 4, 2012
Save the home of the first scientist
Tymperleys is a Grade 2* listed building that is a significant world class heritage asset held in trust for the people of Colchester by Colchester Borough Council. Tymperleys was bequeathed to the town in 1969 by philanthropist Bernard Mason.
The Tymperleys Community Project Ltd (TCP) was set up specifically to inspire and be a catalyst of learning visit this historic building in person and or online in Colchester’s town centre. Through the efforts and vision of TCP, in the future people from Colchester and worldwide will celebrate the life and times of Elizabethan scientist and physician to Queen Elizabeth 1st, William Gilberd. William Gilberd is recognised as “the Father of electricity”, is arguably the first modern scientist and is one of Colchester’s most famous forefathers.
Members of the Gilberd family, along with national celebrities (Queen guitarist Brian May and others) and acclaimed scientists, have expressed their concern at the proposed sale of the historic “Tymperleys” building in Colchester. It’s a tiny but important museum. If the nation can save William Morris’ Red House, then this is far more important and should be kept out of grubbing commercial hands.
People from around the world are mobilising and pledging their support to promote Tymperleys as the ‘soul of Colchester’ as passionately as Galileo and others supported Gilberd, then living in Tymperleys, promoted magnetism as the ‘soul of the earth’.
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Apparently, the old Odeon Cinema in Colchester us under threat too…more flats. If they can bail out banks to the tune of tens of billions of pounds why can’t they spare a fraction of that to bail out these institutions. Merchant bankers the lot of them!
Tymperleys should be saved for the people of Colchester. I think it is unforgivable that the benefactor’s wishes have not been observed. The building is beautiful and so are the clocks.
Who wants yet another tea shop or estate agent or whatever instead? People should take more interest in their heritage and Colchester’s historical past. Money and profit is all this world thinks about these days.