Lifeline for Red House Museum hailed (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Lifeline for Red House Museum hailed

10:05am Friday 10th February 2012 in Spen

Moves to save a museum with strong connections to the Brontes have been welcomed by the director of the Haworth parsonage that was home to the literary sisters.

Kirklees Council had proposed closing Red House Museum in Gomersal, which is linked to Charlotte Bronte, to cut costs.

After hundreds of objections, Council leaders pledged on Tuesday to keep the museum open for now and is looking at ways of finding £116,000 a year to keep it running.

Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, said: “I think it is great that a dialogue will now take place involving some creative thinking about how to get Red House working better as a museum.”