Petition to save Walsall Leather Museum gains 1,000 signatures in five days

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A petition launched to keep the Walsall Leather Museum at its current location has now surpassed 1,800 signatures.

The petition, which gained over 1,000 signatures in five days, is in response to Walsall Council’s decision to dispose of the Leather Museum building to Walsall College.

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The college plans to move its Special Education Needs and Disability offering from its Hawbush campus to the current museum building at Littleton Street West.

Taxpayers’ money to make the former Victorian factory disability-friendly has already been allocated from the government’s Community Regeneration Partnership funding pot.

The council plans to store the contents of the Leather Museum until a suitable to