‘Our last heritage asset’: fears for Walsall Leather Museum as council plans to sell

Lauren Broxton, a leather designer, is campaigning to save the museum from closing at its base in an old handbag factory in the town centre. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Campaigners protesting against the sale of Walsall Leather Museum have said the institution is the town’s “last remaining heritage asset”.

The museum tells the story of the town’s leather industry and those who worked in it. The local council agreed plans in September to sell the museum building to a local college to provide support for students with special educational needs and disabilities (Send).