21 OCTOBER 1978, Page 19

Information, please

Sir: In an endeavour to create a useful record of at least part of our national heritage, I am currently compiling an inventory, or list, of woodcarvings in the United Kingdom.

I have more than 3,000 entries in card index form, and now ask whether your readers would care to report to me carvings known to them in any part of the country. The facts which I require are a brief description of the carving, the location and an actual or approximate date. An interim edition of the inventory will be published shortly, followed by a larger, more definitive, edition. All help will be acknowledged in both volumes and by letter on receipt.

Frederick Oughton 26 Percy Road, London W12