THE jewel in the crown: As a schoolmaster, father and grandfather I have appreciated the North Somerset Museum (under whatever title) for about 50 years and am conscious what it has done for my children and me

THE jewel in the crown: As a schoolmaster, father and grandfather I have appreciated the North Somerset Museum (under whatever title) for about 50 years and am conscious what it has done for my children and me.

I look with horror at the council's proposal to interfere with it, to disseminate its work hither and to close the present premises.

I can only liken it to expecting Her Majesty to pawn the Kohinoor to pay the palace gas bill.

C Anthony Sutton - All Saints' Lane, Clevedon