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A royal appointment if museum is saved?
by HELEN KREFT
PRINCESS Anne has given a massive boost to the Mail's campaign to save
Burton's National Museum of Brewing from closure.
News - Save Our Heritage logo The Princess Royal said: "Keep the
centre open and I'll pay a royal visit."
The Princess officially opened the Bass Museum on July 23, 1977, and
has told The Mail she would welcome the chance to make another visit.
The pledge came after we contacted Buckingham Palace about the
threatened closure of the museum and redistribution of many of the
artefacts connected with Bass brewing as well as the award-winning
****re horses.
In response, a representative of Princess Anne acknowledged that the
Queen's daughter did officially open the Bass Museum, saying she would
be sad to see it close.
A spokesman for the Princess said: "While it is very sad, it is also
not an unusual situation that a large number of organisations and
institutions have closed during the 40 years that the Princess has
been undertaking Royal duties.
"Every engagement that the Princess has attended, she has been very
much involved in and is always sad to see something close.
"While the Princess Royal has no executive authority to comment on the
closure of the Coors Visitor Centre, she would welcome an invitation
to revisit the site should it be saved, like she has with many other
cases."
HUNDREDS of beer buffs backed the campaign to save Burton's brewing
museum at the weekend.
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) held its national members' weekend
for three days in Cardiff, and attracted around a thousand visitors.
They unanimously backed a motion put forward by Roger Protz, the
editor of the Good Beer Guide and a fellow CAMRA member, urging Coors
to extend its closing date of July to allow the attraction to be taken
over by a charitable trust.
Members also signed The Mail's Save Our Heritage petition.
Mr Protz said: "There was not a single hand raised against the motion.
There was a lot of passion felt about this particular issue.
"I said in my speech that there are around 90,000 CAMRA members, and I
have urged them to flood Coors with letters not to close the visitor
centre in June and to keep it open until Janet Dean and her working
party can do something."
SIGN OUR ONLINE PETITION
links to petition page here -
http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail%2Dnews%2Dsaveourheritage/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=299832
or if it's easier here -
http://tinyurl.com/6arl5b
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cheers
MikeMcG
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