SIR – The possible closure of the National Media Museum is indeed a disaster for Bradford, and I’ll be signing any petitions against this move with alacrity.

It has to be asked, though, that as the London-based museum mandarins align their sights on one Northern National museum as possible target for closure, how it must look to them that Bradford Council is about to close one of it’s own galleries – Bradford One Gallery in the city centre – in favour of moving its Central Library into its space using thinking that can be best described as sticking-plaster strategy for the city’s library provision.

Bradford One Gallery shares its space with Impressions Gallery, one of this country’s leading independent photography galleries, who took the bold and brave move to relocate from York to Bradford, giving vital support to the city’s claim to be a key cultural player as a home to film and photography.

While Impressions is not (for the moment at least) threatened with closure, its vision will surely be savagely curtailed by the loss of its fellow gallery.

I completely support the need for forward-looking library provision as a vital service. But, you would think, with Bradford’s proud-history of providing a pioneering library service (one of the first to introduce computerised lending systems, I believe) that it would use the opportunity of the forced closure of its defunct Central Library to radically rethink how it can run an effective and adventurous library service through a revitalised network of branch libraries across the district.

Does Bradford really need a city centre library? Come on, Bradford. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot again, through a skewed and ill-thought through cultural strategy. If the city itself can’t get it right, can it expect metropolitan mandarins to show any mercy?

Nigel Walsh, Mount Pleasant, Ilkley