A Norfolk MP has called to save a seaside town's historic lifeboat museum which is set to close later this year. 

The RNLI Henry Blogg Museum in Cromer will close this summer unless repairs can be made to fix a chronic damp problem at the Rocket House building, the museum's current home at the end of the Esplanade. 

It comes after the RNLI announced earlier this week that it served a break notice to North Norfolk District Council, which owns the building, in January, which will terminate its lease six months later in July. 

The RNLI has had a museum in Cromer since 1967 and the charity has said it is desperate to stay in the town, but currently water entering the ground floor of the building is causing costly damage to its heritage collection. 

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Eastern Daily Press: The RNLI Henry Blogg museum is located in Cromer's Rocket House buildingThe RNLI Henry Blogg museum is located in Cromer's Rocket House building (Image: Denise Bradley)

Now, north Norfolk MP Duncan Baker has pledged to do everything he can to keep the museum - and its historic H.F Bailey lifeboat - in Cromer. 

Speaking in parliament on Tuesday (March 26), Mr Baker said: "I want to put on the record absolutely today that the Bailey belongs to Cromer.

"It belongs to the people of Cromer and it must stay in Cromer.

"I know that behind the scenes the RNLI and the local district council are working together to try to put the building right so that the Bailey can remain in place.

"I will do everything I can behind the scenes to help that to happen. I want to reassure the people of Cromer and widely around north Norfolk that is absolutely what we are driven to achieve."

Eastern Daily Press: North Norfolk MP Duncan Baker raised the issue in parliament on Tuesday (March 26)North Norfolk MP Duncan Baker raised the issue in parliament on Tuesday (March 26) (Image: Duncan Baker)

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North Norfolk District Council is set to meet with the RNLI in a bid to negotiate an extension of the charity's lease at the Rocket House. 

The museum is named after the most decorated lifeboatman in the history of the RNLI, Henry Blogg.

He served on Cromer's lifeboats for 53 years, saving 873 alongside his crew before retiring in 1947.