DO all true Bromsgrove residents read the letters page in the Advertiser? Are you all aware that the leader of the council does not live in Bromsgrove and the fate of Bromsgrove Museum lies within his jurisdiction?

If you allow the museum to close the heritage of Bromsgrove will go with it. Do you want this to happen?

My parents; their forebears; and three of my sisters were born, bred and lived in Bromsgrove. I lived there from five years old. The males of the family worked on the railway. My father's name has been mentioned in The Village and The Rousler Magazines in 2006. He was Les Rudge, of Big Bertha fame, who with his fireman drove Big Bertha to her last resting place at Derby in the 1950s.

In the 1980s I married and moved to Northfield but have always had a keen interest in Bromsgrove. I recently visited the museum with seven friends from the Birmingham area. They were impressed at the quality of exhibits and I was able to give them a commentary on the background. Amazingly, there was no fee charged! No-one to show us round - paid or voluntary; no leaflet on the musuem offered!

Dennis Norton, who initiated the musuem, has resigned from the council over the issue of the pending closure. Doesn't this ring a bell'?

Why not let the museum pay its way'. Charge to enter, promote the museum through the county, target schools in the region with leaflets and open a coffee shop. Re-develop the Drill Hall which has lain empty for decades.

Wake up Bromsgrove.

Wake up all the good, the bad and the Boars.

Fight for this museum to stay open for this generation and the future.

Frances Browne, Northfield, Birmingham