We must not lose museum
A more perfect advert for itself as a museum than Rowley's House in Shrewsbury I cannot imagine. Its old timbers and uneven geometry are as fascinating as the exhibits it houses. The building has a rarified atmosphere all its own, and odds are it has more than one ghost lurking around its many corners.
It is a double treat to see the inside of the house and to see the historic artefacts within it.
The people of Shropshire should fight to keep it as the marvellous showhouse for our county's history that it indeed is. In this instance, faced with a choice between Rowley's and a modern museum, you can keep your modern museum buildings.
Where else can you find such a museum? We should be proud of it.
Don't let bureaucrats with their eye on money value alone sell it off for luxury, exclusive flats. Rowley's is unique in the county and in the country.
Say no to the sell-off of Rowley's House and sign the petition against it, if you have the opportunity.
How many reading this know of the wonderful carved Roman tombstones at Rowley's, touchstones to our Roman past?
One large carved stone fragment is particularly poignant and evocative. It shows the sandalled foot of a Roman soldier.
That one sandalled foot making one think of the dusty marches in foreign lands that many of the soldiers, who were based and died at Wroxeter, had to make.
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