AS a man whose idea of art is studying the delights of Constable, Turner, Botticelli and Michaelangelo, along with John Nash, Christopher Wren etc. the monstrosity at the corner of Smyrna Street offends my renaissance soul.

If the perpetrator of this eyesore believes himself to be an artist then I am Vincent van Gogh.

No doubt the amateur artists of Radcliffe will soon be adding to it by daubing graffiti over it, for that is all it is fit for.

DAVID HERDSON,

Ainsworth Road, Radcliffe.

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