PEOPLE COME FOR MUSEUMS
STOCKPORT Council wants to make Stockport vibrant as a tourist destination.
This will only happen if there is a reason for people to come into the town, at present we have lots of empty shops and rundown buildings with grass growing out of them.
People come from far and wide to visit Stockport’s museums they come for many reasons, business, pleasure, weddings, relatives, or just because they think we look interesting, as they travel past on the train, they see Hat Works chimney.
We have a bus stop outside Hat Works, it’s the 192 bus which comes down from Hazel Grove to Manchester City Centre, and people sometimes stop off on their journeys because they see we are open for business.
They may take a guided tour, or have a wander round, maybe just come in to use the shop.
We also get coach companies, group bookings and schools visiting on a regular basis.
Our museums/ attractions also provide a service to the community, somewhere for people to bring their children where it is safe for them to play and learn depending on age.
We even cater for babies. Carers bring their service users it is a good safe fully accessible place to come for an outing.
We run courses for milliners or people who just want to learn how to make a hat from scratch.
If the sites shut or are only open at set times one or two days a week and only in the afternoons, it will make Stockport look shut and will put many people off coming into the town, as they like to visit a number of museums in one day and many from far away cannot come back.
We will lose far more then we will gain by closing.
All the staff who work at these sites are very knowledgeable they each have a different story to tell a different tour to give people, so visitors have a reason to come back over and over again and bring new people with them that they think will be interested in visiting us and they enjoy these different visits, if the museum staff are made redundant or leave they will take that information with them and it will be lost.
I know we have to make savings but not at the expense of Stockport’s history and the ghosts of Stockport’s heritage stories that need to be told to the future generations, we owe it to the Hatter’s and the people of Stockport past and present that they did not live in vain to be forgotten.
Local people will not vote for the councillors who were responsible for shutting their town’s museums down.
The forward view of the council is to make Stockport a great place to live and work, well I will tell you now, close the museums, sack the staff and it will be a race to the bottom, Stockport will be a town no one wants to come to.
Because there will be nothing to come here for.
People may still live here but they will work and take their money elsewhere it won’t get spent in Stockport. Sharza Dethick President, Stockport Trades Union Council about climate change.
These people don’t stop to think of the environmental costs to produce their clothes, smartphones and other gadgets then theirs the running cost of most of these things they don’t operate on fresh air.
Before you whine look at your own lifestyle and think.
If you got what you wanted we would end up back living in caves with no internet, no smartphones, no Facebook and wearing bearskins how would you survive?
You wouldn’t and that’s a fact. Sara Moor Florist Street Stockport