SAVING RURAL ENGLAND [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,--When on tour my invariable custom is to call only at those filling stations which show that at least some efforts have been made to harmonize them with their surroundings.
I recall with pleasure one striking example of what one of these stations can be when designed by a man of taste and refinement, which I came across during a recent run from the North. Incidentally I may mention that I treat purveyors of stolen petrol in the same way as the desecrators of rural England, viz., I pass them by !
If a similar policy were adopted by the general body of motorists it would show.that neither vandalism nor dishonesty paid and a vast improvement would soon be manifest in both these respects.—I am, Sir, &c.,
EVELYN STUART SEYMOUR.
P.S.—The artistic pump is on the west side of the main road between Leicester and Market Harborough, and the name on it, I believe, was either " Great Glen " or " Glen Gorge." Whichever it was, I was sufficiently struck by it to get out of the car in order to congratulate the manager, who told me that many other motorists did the same.
The Cottage, Mote Park, Maidstone.
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