Just up our street

SIR – Charles Lowndes (Letters, August 26) is correct in calling Broad Street beautiful, but it is not the one in Oxford. According to Nikolaus Pevsner in the Shropshire volume of The Buildings of England, Broad Street, Ludlow, is “one of the most memorable streets in England”.

Presteigne, Radnorshire

SIR – Your Leading Article (August 25) mentioned the demolition of St Martin Carfax church, Oxford, in 1896, to speed traffic flow.

All is not lost. The pew-ends were used to panel a room in Bucklandtout-saints House, now a hotel, near Kingsbridge in south Devon. That room is now the hotel bar.

Netley, Hampshire