Nov 22 2007
Campaigners press university chiefs over textile centre closure
From the Daily Echo by Andrew Napier
SOUTHAMPTON University chiefs are coming under pressure over their controversial decision to shut the world-renowned Textile Conservation Centre.
The Daily Echo revealed earlier this month that the university says the centre is unviable and should close in 2009.
Staff expertise will be lost and its collections dispersed across the world.
University bosses say they can no longer justify subsidising the centre from other parts of the organisation.
The Textile Conservation Centre (TCC) is the only place in the country offering postgraduate courses in textile conservation.
Its work on Henry VIII’s football boots, the hood of the Elephant Man and the battle flag of HMS Victory, Admiral Nelson’s flagship, has attracted much media attention.
Since the Daily Echo’s story, an e-mail petition on the Downing Street website has started and already attracted more than 1,600 names.
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