NB A well attended (200) meeting was held in Ludlow and signatures are being collected, I know some of you have added yours to the cause.  Here is Janet’s note after the meeting:

BBC Radio Shropshire attended the overwhelmingly supported open meeting which the Friends of Ludlow Museum held last week. They interviewed many and now are broadcasting an hour long phone-in programme (3rd Feb 10-11am) with the Leader of Shropshire Council, Keith Barrow, answering the questions.

Many thanks for all your support and if you haven’t yet please sign the e-petition : 

1000 signatures needed, see message below.  LMRC is a nationally important centre for geology so TVGS is supporting them in their bid to prevent its closure:

I am a committee member of the Friends of Ludlow Museum and we would like The Woolhope Club to be aware of the proposed closure by Shropshire Council of the LMRC and ask for your support in our fight to stop this. Knowledge of and access to the collections including the nationally important geology collections also will disappear; the 3 curators were informed of their redundancy just before Christmas. I could go on – suffice it to say we are holding a Public Meeting in Ludlow at Oscars, in the Assembly Rooms, at 11 am on Thursday, 22 January to fight this. Michael Rosenbaum, Emeritus Professor of Geology will chair an open discussion and we will launch an e-petition to get the 1000+ signatures we need to get this matter on the agenda of the full Shropshire Council on 26 February, to be reconsidered. If you could provide me with an email address I would be delighted to send you our Press Release, the poster announcing the meeting and the LMRC Briefing document which details the services they provide and 2013/14 usage statistics. Please forward this email to all your departments. I shall hope to hear from you very soon and hope The Woolhope members will add their weight to this campaign.Any comments can also be sent to Many thanks Janet Rolfe Smith