A Glimpse Of Our Past,

the Tudor ship Mary Rose sunk, with 500 crew on board in the Solent, after 34 years at sea and three wars, the Mary Rose was regarded by many as invincible, but on July 19, 1545, as she defended England from a French invasion force, she sank taking most hands with her, as of now some 19,000 artefact's have been collected from it's watery grave but most have not been seen by the public till now, at the moment they are stored in five temperature- controlled storerooms not open to the public, but in an ambitious £35million project, a charity hopes to reunite the ship with her treasures and put them on display in Portsmouth, now this is what I find pitiful, the charity is launching a public appeal - the Mary Rose 500 appeal - for 500 individuals, schools, businesses and organisations to become the new 'crew' of the Tudor warship, each crew member will pledge to raise £500 towards a £250,000 target, our heritage is at risk, the government and opposition MP's whilst happily gouging the public for every penny they can for their own pockets, (and now being given instructions not to pay them back), do not give a fiddlers cuss for our heritage, disgraceful.