Less jingoism for Bomber Command

Published: 26 November, 2010

• AS a life-long Green and, incidentally, watching The Bridge on the River Kwai, as I write, I read with interest the article in the November 19 West End Extra. 

May I lend my support to Juliet Lyle’s position in this regard. My father is also ex-wartime RAF and is part of a team of volunteers that restore old aircraft at Brooklands Museum near Weybridge in Surrey. Among their many projects has been the restoration of the Wellington bomber that was salvaged from the bottom of Loch Ness after being ditched in 1940. The hangar in which it lives could seriously do with a face-lift. Surely an investment in the museum and the hangars in which the aircraft are housed would be more fitting a memorial – and certainly less jingoistic – to the crews that flew under Bomber Command than ploughing up yet more of our precious green space in central London to erect this proposed edifice.

MARGARET BLOOMER
Soho, W1