“THE GALLERY IS FREE TO ENTER, AFTER A CONTROVERSIAL TICKET PRICING SCHEME WAS SCRAPPED, BUT WILL ONLY BE OPEN TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THREE DAYS A WEEK”

Well they have tried charging a £7 entrance fee, now they are trying allowing free entrance, the only other alternative left is to pay people to go there and I think that’s going to be the most realistic system, they would certainly have to pay me to go to West Bromwich, and that payment would have to be at least the cost of a car wash to get the dirt off my car after visiting the dirty filthy dump, its hard to imagine a more depressing, dirty place.

“VISITORS ARE MET WITH A FOREST OF METAL TREES AND SOME TOUCH SCREENS FEATURING BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BLACK COUNTRY. THE PUBLIC GENERAL MANAGER LINDA SAUNDERS SAID” “EVERYBODY HERE IS JUST REALLY EXCITED” and I would say exactly the same if my income depended on my job, and I was trying to sell a product to people.

I can walk up the end of our road and see real trees, I can log on the net and see all the black-and-white photographs of the Black Country I want, sorry the Public should never have been built, and now it has the people that squandered nearly £70 million of our money should be made to face up to us and explain how they intend to pay us back.

Jim of Bearwood.

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I am for art but not for wasting money on schemes before they can even be justified. And if I want to watch displays of politically-correct rubbish I’ll switch on the BBC.

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Geoff, you say West Brom has no swimming baths. I don’t recall it having a decent university, either. This money could have funded some or all of that, in my opinion. No, instead we get an arts centre and countless unemployed people shovelled onto New Deal programmes..bad planning or by design?

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