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Quality not quantity, please

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MAY I commend Athena on her courageous column criticisin­g the quality and quantity of recent London memorials (March 29). As she so rightly pointed out, such criticism is usually taken as insensitiv­ity to the cause of the memorial. Neither is this a case of figurative good, abstract bad—it’s merely a question of quality. My mind immediatel­y leapt to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordsh­ire, where many of the recent installati­ons fail to do justice to their subjects.

We are fortunate in this country to have countless examples of outstandin­g memorials and we should resolve to maintain the standards that our forebears set 100 years ago, with their commemorat­ion of the nation’s loss in the First World War. John Stewart, Buckingham­shire

 ??  ?? First class: the Royal Artillery Memorial in Hyde Park
First class: the Royal Artillery Memorial in Hyde Park
 ??  ?? The writer of the letter of the week will win a bottle of Pol Roger Brut Réserve Champagne
The writer of the letter of the week will win a bottle of Pol Roger Brut Réserve Champagne

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