A new resource room is to be created at Colchester Castle to ensure disabled people can look through the town's paper archives

As part of Colchester Museum Service's aim of improving access to all its buildings, about £8,000 will be spent on creating the small resource room for disabled people

The reason for the addition, expected to be finished by 2004, is that the historical files and other paper-based documents are in the Museum Resource Centre off Maidenburgh Street, which the disabled find difficult to get into.

Collections manager Anne-Maria Bojko said the ideal situation would be to make the resource centre "fully accessible".

But because that would cost "an enormous sum", Ms Bojko said the service is planning to create a special resource room in the castle itself.

Published Monday August 12, 2002

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