27 JUNE 1981, Page 19

Canterbury's glory

Sir: Richard West (6 June) sympathises with Canterbury as 'a saddening town, much of its old glory ruined by bombs and property men'. Certainly there have been lamentable changes, but we at the King's School know that the city's ancient appeal as a shrine of ancient belief is not lost, for each summer more than a hundred newstyle Canterbury pilgrims come here from all over the world to live for a few days in the school's St Augustine's College and to learn of the archaeological and ecclesiastical history of Canterbury and to relish that same 'old glory' which is by no means departed.

John Corner The King's School, Canterbury Kent