THE THREAT - TO DURHAM
R,—Your references tti this subject in your issue of July 21st do timely vice. This is no longer a local, it is a national, issue. The view of se twin monuments as the train approaches the loop in the river ear, on whose mountainous banks they stand, is one of the noblest ghts, not alone in England, but in Europe. To blot out this view by dustrial buildings would be a crime. Apart altogether from the im- nderable values, both spiritual and aesthetic, attaching to beauty and enity, I have always contended that in material value also they pay dividend. Let me quote from the article " London in 197o " by Mr.
ilton Kerr, M.P., which appeared in the same issue of your paper. The Royal Academy Plan envisages all these improvements, but I ye never seen an estimate of their cost in round figures. Doubtless expenditure could be spread over a number of years. The scheme ould certainly give employment to many thousands of men for a long Kid, whilst the income which France gained from the tourist traffic fore the war shows that amenities provide a permanent national asset." ble buildings, nobly sited, must be nobly viewed. They must, on no ount, be ignobly obscured.—I am, Sir, &c.,
J. DOUGLAS MITCHELL, Col.
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