Colin Muerk, for example, saw value in preserving ruins (Press, 9 August 2011) while Professor Ian Lochhead, in advocating the repair of the Provincial Council buildings, stressed the need for a very long time delay between a building's destruction and the acceptance of it in a new, picturesque, role (Press, 19 August 2011).

Simply for our blog-readers' viewing pleasure, here are a couple of hardcore picturesque ruins from our own collection; the first was published, appropriately enough in the folio Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England, published in 1816.