Heritage blow

I am not a historian but having lived in Warrington all my life I am well aware that the town does have a rich heritage, which unfortunately seems to be in the process systematically destroyed by a group people, who an acquaintance of mine said were living in cloud cuckoo land.

It was not so long ago that our town was placed at the bottom of the league by the Royal Society of Arts, saying our town heritage consisted of a few stuffed hedgehogs and George Formby’s grave.

I may be incorrect but I believe that no attempt was made by these people to correct this false statement by the RSA.

The town’s main library is surely of national historical significance as is the neglected national treasure (organ) housed in the Parr Hall which these people seemed determined to sell off in order to make a pile of money, instead of investing in its potential.

These people seem to have mixed up two words, cost and value.

Everything to these people would appear to revolve around how much it is costing the town and they forget the great value of the two items that I have mentioned and the great importance that they have, not only to us but to future generations.

Our beautiful town library and of course the Parr Hall treasure are surely our inheritance from the fathers of our town to future generations and part of the cultural heritage of its people.

It is my sincere hope that there might be such resistance to these proposals that these destroyers of our heritage might be stopped together with their pacifying sop, in the form of a mural painted on the gable end of a building, which makes us a laughing stock both to the RSA and others.

If these destroyers of our town’s heritage get their misguided way, then they will have to remove the misleading signs which state ‘Cultural Quarter’.

In answer to Peter Magill (Warrington Guardian, October 6), no it is not time to close the book.

BRYAN R GREGORY Warrington