IT was with great sadness that I read in the Telegraph (October 27) of the further vandalism to the conservatory in Corporation Park, Blackburn.

As a child I lived in Dukes Brow, a five-minute walk away, I was one of five children and after Sunday School our dad would take us to the park.

I can still remember that wonderful smell of flowers and tropical trees when you opened the door. We used to pretend we were in the jungle, it was magical. Afterwards we would roly-poly down the grass banking while dad sat on a forms under the verandah happily puffing on a "Woodbine."

Then we would feed the ducks on the lake, finishing up at the top of the park where we would go along the "broad walk" as it was called where there was a huge round block of highly polished granite of some kind which we used to call "the slippy stone" made shiny by the constant use of children sliding down it.

To complete our afternoon we would walk up to the two old cannons that overlooked all the park.

Dad would lift us up to sit astride them where we had a wonderful view over Blackburn.

We had no televisions or computers as kids have today but we loved our walk in the park.

It makes me so sad to see old and lovely things vandalised by mindless idiots who can't find anything better to do.

CAROL SHAW (pensioner), Ashton Road, Darwen.