We are to be charged £10 to visit the Old Greenwich Royal Observatory with effect from March, whereas entry has been free in the past. This doesn't seem to have been announced properly anywhere and local blogger Greenwich Gazette only only found out by accident.
Another local blogger, The Greenwich Phantom, has picked up on the story and asks if this is the thin end of the wedge and if admission charges are to be introduced for national collections in general. While I can see some logic in these straitened times for introducing admission fees I do think that they way they have been brought in by stealth on this occasion has been handled particularly badly.
