THOSE who love Worcester will be deeply depressed to find the Friar Street Museum of Local Life is to be flogged off.

This is truly the people's museum, its displays selected and displayed with great care and affection.

The kids come in for their Victorian schoolroom classes, the mums and dads to remember about the last war, and the tourists in their droves.

Such a popular museum enhances Worcester's most attractive, historic street and has played a major part in the success of the Victorian fair.

Its popularity meant that only recently, the building's electrical circuits and display cases were expensively renovated for museum use.

It also figured on the Worcester promotion video as a building of which we were proud.

So many of us will find it all very sudden, coming on top of the dire news about the Swan and the proposed cuts to parks and floral displays. Are we proud of Worcester or not?

The friends of the Worcester museums will be demanding a meeting and some better excuses. We hope many Worcester citizens will attend.

J CARPENTER,

Programme Secretary,

Friends of Worcester Museums.