20 MAY 1955, Page 20

SIR,—Many people must, like myself, have failed owing to the

newspaper strike to learn earlier of the shocking threat that now hangs over two of the loveliest valleys of the Lake District. If a halt is not called, overhead elec- tric cables will invade and deface Borrowdale and Patterdale.

I understand that the Minister of Fuel-and Power can require the lines to be underground, and can arrange for the cost to be spread nationally. These beautiful valleys—lying in the heart of our great mountain country—dear to Wordsworth (I need not invoke his Patter- -dale poem, known all over the world as The Daffodils) and to innumerable walkers and visitors from overseas, are a precious part of our national heritage. Surely it is not too late to save them.—Yours faithfully, 6 Canterbury Road, Oxford