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Why maritime centre needs your support
RE: SCARBOROUGH Maritime Heritage Centre.
My husband and I managed to attend the public meeting held on Wednesday January 25, and were most disappointed at the poor attendance. The small room allocated was packed with about 36 people.
Over the past couple of years we’ve been most interested in their enthusiastic project, and the volunteers have devoted a considerable amount of time and energy into promoting a centre.
They have acquired exhibits, mementoes, memorabilia and books etc which are all stored and awaiting a hopeful venue where they may be exhibited.
Such valuable documentation of Scarborough’s maritime history must surely be treasured for future generations.
The question arises - do people really value museums and exhibitions nowadays? Why did Woodend Museum of Natural History close, and why are so many venues we visit when away on holiday, suffering from low numbers?
It seems technology has replaced the ‘real’ world, and the youngsters fail to relate to the wondrous world around them.
With regard to information board, these would essentially require to be bold an simple, with too much working.
The ‘information’ carved into pavement sounds a good idea until you face reality.
Our first encounter with this was at Portpatrick in Scotland, where the Southern Upland Way wandered past our hotel. Clear at the onset, and much obscured in later years, due to the wearing away of thousands of feet, along with in filling of letters with mud, sand and debris. Such a pity after so much time and effort.
While we’d love to see this project succeed, it needs the backing of Scarborough people.
Have you visited the centre at No 36 Eastborough?
May I suggest you go along and see for yourself the work being achieved.
Maureen and Michael Robinson
Malvern Crescent
Scarborough
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horace jonhson
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 09:45 AM"Why did Woodend Museum of Natural History close? ".........probably because the displaysexhibitions were never changed in all the times I visited it andbecame a permanent display of stuffed animals, just as the multi million revamp of the Rotunda has turned into a permanent display of "bones and stones"......Have you visited the centre at No 36 Eastborough?........Yes I have and the centre, despite its limited space, is so much more than a museum of glass cases, but an archive of information with books and records that are really "hands on" stuff, and is staffed by enthusiastic volunteers who actually speak towith you. How much more interesting than, say, the Brightons Royal Pavillion, "that have embraced the digital revolution of the newmillenium" and who slap a handset in yr hand and leave you to it are not half as interesting as the real people at Scarboro centre
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