No Howard !
Take a look at the John Peverley book of the Western Heights and look at the condition of South Front Barracks when they were abandoned by the military in the 1950's and what they were like a year later.
Or when the Grand Shaft had a car down it and was derelict and smashed up in the 1970's.
The 'younger generation' get blamed for a lot, but we haven't had any World Wars in my time