IN your issue of August 9, Tina Smith, a representative of a firm of builders, refers to "the pretty Victorian town of St Annes." This might well be seen as adding insult to injury since, with the connivance of Fylde Borough Council, she and her ilk have been busy demolishing some of the most historic buildings in the town in order to erect their blocks of flats.

We have recently lost the Football League headquarters, St Thomas's vicarage and Dunes House and are shortly to lose the College on the Drive and, quite possibly, the Ashton Gardens pavilion.

When one adds that the open air swimming pool was knocked down in order to build the eyesore Pleasure Island and the wide pavements of the Square have been obstructed with a clutter of unnecessary and unattractive constructions, one wonders how much more urban vandalism the council will allow.

Geoffrey Connell,

Bromley Road,

Lytham St Annes.