Museum centre to be sold off (From Gazette)
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Museum centre to be sold off
7:00am Friday 21st December 2012 in News By Wendy Brading
HISTORIANS have accused Colchester Council of selling off the family silver as the building housing the museum resource centre is set to be sold off.
The council has confirmed it is to put the centre in Ryegate Road on the market.
It claims the centre, next to Castle Park, is no longer fit for purpose and says it cannot afford the cost of bringing it to standard.
But history lovers want assurances staff and the artefacts at the centre will be given a good new home.
For more on this story, see today's Gazette.
Comments(6)
Hamiltonandy
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11:00am Sat 22 Dec 12
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After my experience with Tymperleys there is no point me even trying to help buy it for charitable purposes. Colchester Council will have a developer already lined up and will ignore everyone else.
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It will be interesting to see if the sale becomes stalled as the developer realises the problems he will face.
hughie-s
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11:21am Sat 22 Dec 12
Hamiltonandy
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3:07pm Sat 22 Dec 12
If Firstsite I remember repeatedly contacting the Charity commission one year as only a one page summary was made available online. It took about six months and a formal complaint before the charity commission ran out of excuses and put the full accounts online.
hughie-s
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8:31pm Sat 22 Dec 12
Hamiltonandy wrote:Got it in one;)
No, who?
If Firstsite I remember repeatedly contacting the Charity commission one year as only a one page summary was made available online. It took about six months and a formal complaint before the charity commission ran out of excuses and put the full accounts online.
See a Firstsite Enterprises has been set up, no indication of the purpose
hughie-s
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1:04pm Sun 23 Dec 12
Boris says...
11:19pm Fri 21 Dec 12
If he wanted to move the museum resource centre, why didn't he find them new premises before making this announcement?
Is Colchester serious about its history or isn't it? I think we know the answer to that.