A former military man says he will not give up on his crusade to see the Union flag flying at the National Media Museum in Bradford.

Determined pensioner Peter Makin, who served in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in Germany from 1958 to 1960, sees no reason why the flag cannot be displayed at the Bradford venue permanently.

His battle to see the red, white and blue flying at the museum has been waging for about four years.

However, the venue insisted the flag would only be flown on the 20 days of the year designated by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, such as the Queen’s birthday and St George’s Day.

A spokesman for the National Media Museum said: “In line with other museums in the group with a flagpole, we will be flying the union flag on the designated days.

“We have chosen to mark the occasions designated as flag-flying days and we will be proudly celebrating those special dates by flying the union flag from the museum roof.”

The spokesman added that the flag would only be flown on the designated days in order to keep those occasions “special”.

But Mr Makin, said: “It is a disgrace. The National Media Museum is the most unpatriotic building there is. And it is prominent in the background of the new war memorial.

“No wonder the statue of J.B Priestley statue has its back turned to the museum.

“This country is losing its pride and its respect. All those children that go to the National Media Museum and we have not got our flag flying there for when they do. It is weak and it is wrong.”

Mr Makin, who proudly displays two union flags outside his Oakenshaw home, added: “The museum gets funding from the lottery and the Government, but won’t fly the flag. When I’m in Tehran, Moscow, New York or Sydney, they fly the flag.”

Mr Makin’s long-running campaign has seen him in the past write to then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, trying to get him to intervene.

The retired construction worker successfully lobbied Bradford Council to fly the union flag at City Hall all year round in 2002.