I FULLY endorse the points made by Mr Frankland (LET, March 7) about the threatened closure of "The Lewis Textile Museum."

My late father presented a beaming machine to the museum in memory of his grandfather who had invented the "drop pin top motion" which was used to great advantage on beaming and warping machines and eventually on many weaving machines to speed up knotting of broken threads.

Both Mr T B Lewis and my father made their donations in the belief they would be a permanent record of the industry which put Blackburn on the world map. It will be an inexcusable act of vandalism if the closure does take place.

JOHN S SINGLETON, Yerburgh Road, Mellor.