ENGLAND'S GREEN . . BEAUTY [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In
your Centenary number Mr. John Galsworthy advises those who wish to preserve England's beauty to be active and even unpleasant. How should one proceed towards a Government Department which deliberately spoils the beauty of a little village Kersey, in Suffolk, has stood uninjured since Tudor days, almost every cottage has gables and overhanging stories. Time had passed it by till six months ago when the Telephone Department ran six or eight big poles down the village street; like great black streaks on a beautiful picture. Equally well these poles could have been put on the farther side of the village where they would have been unseen, but no, they must be made conspicuous, one jammed against an inn of 1550, another close to a house of 1654.
It is all very well to cry out about petrol pumps, they can be removed or repainted, but to spoil a village which is unique in its way, a bit of Tudor England, and this to be done by the hands of the Government, is a positive crime.
I enclose a photograph to show you both the beauty and
the defacement.—I am,- Sir, &c., A. C.
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