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Bondgate Tower ,Alnwick.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir.

Your Correspondent, Mr Wightman Douglas, is evidently purturbed that a telephone kiosk should be erected in proximity to the ancient tower at Alnwick. His pathetic appeal to antiquaries to help stay the verdict of the Urban Council is, to my mind, pushing the antiquarian spirit too far. It is absurd expecting modern needs to be sacrificed in the interests of a mere whim. The old tower is a landmark, cerainly, but the erection of the kiosk will not in any way disfigure its "beauty". I do not remeber any protest from mt Douglas or any antiqquaries against the unsightly row of petrol pumps which formerly disfiggured the northern approach of the tower. I think the Council are doing right in considering the public wants.

"Hotspur" Alnwick, November 15.