Welcome to the first meeting of the joint community museum-library-post office-scout hall-dry cleaners-police station and Tasteee Takeaway Chicken Shack liaison committee.
Apologies from Dr Smith, though he says his surgery is very interested in joining the discussion since the neighbouring practice voted to abolish them and replace their premises with a hydrotherapy pool and car wash.
As you know, our main areas of common concern are public access, budgets, facilities, staff cuts, collection care, building maintenance, acquisitions, and the proposed high-speed rail line linking St David’s, Southwold and Balmoral, which, in its present form, would take out entirely what we have tentatively described as our “cultural quarter”, along with the police station and the Tasteee Takeaway.
If this building survives the threat of being converted into a new “free school” – and in this context I have to say that Akela’s suggestion of a new strategic planning badge is inspired – we can probably embrace many of these functions under our own roof, with the police station usefully doubling as front desk security, side-by-side with the post office, which will now take on ticketing and the gift shop, and the takeaway occupying our now sadly closed study centre and cafe.
Spotless Minds have kindly volunteered to help with collection care, in return for setting up their dry cleaning business in the former conservation unit, and our library colleagues have also come up with the superb suggestion, which will help tremendously with our collection storage problems, of issuing a wide selection of the more portable artefacts as loans along with their books.
The library will occupy the space previously reserved for our full-scale replica of the Lusitania – whose ship’s cat, I don’t have to remind you, was born not five miles from where I speak – a cherished project which we have to admit will not now be complete in time for the centenary in 2015.
Obviously these are very difficult times, but I think we must all view them as a challenge, yes, but also a genuine opportunity.
Apologies from Dr Smith, though he says his surgery is very interested in joining the discussion since the neighbouring practice voted to abolish them and replace their premises with a hydrotherapy pool and car wash.
As you know, our main areas of common concern are public access, budgets, facilities, staff cuts, collection care, building maintenance, acquisitions, and the proposed high-speed rail line linking St David’s, Southwold and Balmoral, which, in its present form, would take out entirely what we have tentatively described as our “cultural quarter”, along with the police station and the Tasteee Takeaway.
If this building survives the threat of being converted into a new “free school” – and in this context I have to say that Akela’s suggestion of a new strategic planning badge is inspired – we can probably embrace many of these functions under our own roof, with the police station usefully doubling as front desk security, side-by-side with the post office, which will now take on ticketing and the gift shop, and the takeaway occupying our now sadly closed study centre and cafe.
Spotless Minds have kindly volunteered to help with collection care, in return for setting up their dry cleaning business in the former conservation unit, and our library colleagues have also come up with the superb suggestion, which will help tremendously with our collection storage problems, of issuing a wide selection of the more portable artefacts as loans along with their books.
The library will occupy the space previously reserved for our full-scale replica of the Lusitania – whose ship’s cat, I don’t have to remind you, was born not five miles from where I speak – a cherished project which we have to admit will not now be complete in time for the centenary in 2015.
Obviously these are very difficult times, but I think we must all view them as a challenge, yes, but also a genuine opportunity.
