When a man is forced to go to law, either
as plaintiff or as defen- dant, wins his case, but finds himself heavily out of pocket, he always seems to me to have a just complaint against things in general. So has a society which puts up a gallant—and a winning—fight for public amenities and almost exhausts its funds in so doing. That is the present fate, so I learn from the Dean of Durham, of the Durham Preservation Society, which waged war so indomitably against the project which would have put a power-station in the middle of the familiar and impressive view of the towers and slopes of Dur- ham from the railway. The battle is won—and the travelling public benefit by the victory as much as Dunelmians—but the Preservation Society is penniless. Anyone who may feel moved to help re- plenish its coffers may do so through the Treasurer at the Chapter
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