Dear Friends,
    I wrote about a month ago asking for your support for the Manor House Museum that was in danger of being closed in April 2006.  St Edmundsbury Borough Council have now had their meeting and in spite of the many objections and requests to delay a final decision on the closure the motion was railroaded through.  Therefore it now looks as if we will loose this fine museum and its building.  The Museum staff will receive redundancy notices with their Christmas Pay Cheque.  Charming!
    To look on the bright side it is probable that most of the collection will in future be housed in the Moyses Hall Museum in Bury after a period? of re-development.
    I would like to thank all of you who have written to the Council in support of keeping this fine museum open. 
    If a museum near you is under a similar threat then please shout out and I for one will do all that I can to help in your cause.  Don't let petty-minded and penny-pinching councils take any more fine museums away from us.
 
    Thanks again for your kind help,
 
    Mike Cowham.
    Cambridge UK.

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