HER Searches - In Person?

[kevin wooldridge]

I can't recall the number of times I have pointed out to HER staff (both in person and in writing) errors in the data. Nearly always you get thanked with the promise of amendment to the record, but often that's an empty promise. I know that staff are hard pressed etc etc, but if they value peer review they should at least try and do something......worst case in my small patch: Local authority list of protected buildings had gleaned from an English Heritage website that a building they had classed as grade 2, was a mid 19th century hospital outbuilding. In reality it was an early 18th century theatre (drama not surgical). Despite my attempts to get it relisted (ought to be grade 2 starred at least if not grade 1) and providing a detailed history of its construction, owners and uses, both PastScape, and local authority lists and county HER, still have it as a 19th hospital outbuilding.....and don't even get me started on the late 17th century pottery kilns under the car-park next door!!