Dame Joanna Lumley championed fundraising to restore Moat Brae, with Dame Barbara Kelly CBE involved in the fight to save the building Get that Friday feeling with the latest book recommendations and reviews by joining The Friday Book Club We have more newsletters Get that Friday feeling with the latest book recommendations and reviews by joining The Friday Book Club We have more newsletters Two Dames who played an integral part in the initial campaign to save Dumfries’ Moat Brae are calling for “positive solutions” to keep its doors open. National treasure and award-winning actress Joanna Lumley, who, as its patron, championed the fundraising to restore Moat Brae and cut the ribbon to open it in 2019 is one of them. She said this week: “Many people are trying to think of ways to keep this beautiful and important historical building open and filled with children.
“Reading and learning about literature are the bedrock of education and provide essential escapism for people of all ages, but most especially for children, and I shall keep my fingers crossed that some solution will be found. “The place where Peter Pan was born should be celebrated and the name of JM Barrie kept alive. “I wait, like Mrs Darling at the nursery window, to see if love and life will return to Moat Brae.
” Dame Barbara Kelly CBE – along with the late Roger Windsor and Cathy Agnew – fought to save the Peter Pan building and Neverland garden from demolition, beating the bulldozers by jus.