Scheme modest by comparison

The good folk served by Harrogate Borough Council, horrified by the prospect 
of the new residential development (Yorkshire Post, September 23) should thank 
their lucky stars for the modesty of the proposal.

Here in Calderdale, plans are afoot for the building of 6,800 new houses in the green belt, 
this despite the proliferation 
of “For Sale” signs throughout the area!

Silver bullet to kill rowdiness

From: Melvyn Walker, Meadowfield, Holme-on-Spalding Moor, York.

Matthew Grove should be congratulated for telling us what we already know about the problem with alcohol in city centres (Yorkshire Post, September 21).

He really earns his salary.

All he has done is to regurgitate the platitudes that are so common with our elected representatives.

However, he is wrong, there is a silver bullet!

Last year a senior police officer in Hampshire told me that, in his opinion, if cannabis was decriminalised the mayhem in city centres could be halved.

Fond memories of a rural idyll

From: Mrs Sandra Phipps, Wheatley Court, Bolling Road, Ilkley.

Your delightful photograph (Yorkshire Post, September 16) 
set me thinking of my 
childhood.

Living in Salterhebble, near Halifax, in the 1950s, at the bottom of Crossley Hill on 
Farrar Mill Lane were two canal basins with the River Calder beyond and surrounding woodland.

A child’s paradise.

Sadly, the canals were ultimately filled in and the 
rural idyll with so much wildlife was spoilt.

It would be wonderful if you could print photographs of this location in the early 1950s.