School should be made into museum

I deplore the suggestion that the former St Mary Bredin School (Gazette, September 7), should be destroyed and the site redeveloped.

I consider this little Victorian school to be a real gem and part of the city’s heritage. I hope and pray that all those who value our heritage will endeavour to see that this building is saved.

It should be taken over by KCC and transformed into a Victorian museum, filled with artifacts of that period, making it partly classrooms and partly rooms of a Victorian working-class home.

This would be invaluable to both the local and countywide schoolchildren and for those training to be teachers in our colleges and universities.

I am sure that the City Fathers of today are more enlightened than those of bygone times who caused the city to lose some of its greatest treasures. Alderman Ken Hando by email

Regarding the debate about the St Mary Bredin school site at Rhodaus Town (Letters, September 14).

I really believe the best and most honourable result would be to make this available for the homeless and people trying to help them.

I know that efforts have been made to add development on the present Catching Lives site but they unfortunately did not materialise (where are the developers with all the money and clout here?).

The old school site is very close to the present homeless centre.

It is an area largely away from residential homes of any numbers and there is sufficient room to accommodate the homeless dogs belonging to those on the streets. It is the right thing to do. Carole Brett-taylor Albion Street, Broadstairs