LYNN PHTLISTINES.
In the battle for preservation a local storm is raging in King's Lynn, a town full of historic buildings eloquent of its past. Mr. Guy Dawber, to whom the whole movement for preservation owes a great debt, is appealing for a Preservation Committee. One of the troubles is that people do not wish to preserve. It seems scarcely credible that the movement should be resisted on the ground that the objectors can " see no beauty " in the historic buildings ! Was ever the Philistine point of view more crudely expressed ? Perhaps there is even more need for preserving the source of Lynn's history. The harbour, once one of the busiest, is silting up and the town may become a Rye. In what I may call the structural preservation of England no section needs a wider scheme than the Wash and its rivers and the fens they drain.
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