I must respond to Adam Trimingham’s nostalgia article in your Saturday Seven Days magazine (The Argus, May 3) headlined “Out With The Old”.

In it he describes the politics of Hove during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

I was genuinely shocked at the content of this article and the way in which he referred to past members of what was then Hove Borough Council.

It is clearly ageist pointing out negatively that “only one of the 36 councillors was under 50”.

I was a junior clerk at the old Brooker Hall and had just left school. The town clerk, his staff and the elected members were experienced and respected members of the community, working hard for the people of Hove.

The majority of councillors were experienced business people who ran the council as a “business” for the benefit of the ratepayers.

With the luxury of hindsight, it is now all too easy to question and mock their decisions and actions some 50 years on.

I was stunned at his cruel and hurtful references to some of the councillors who in his words “were noticeably senile”.

Elsewhere, he callously talks of a councillor who “bored himself to death during a speech”.

It is sad that most of these public servants are no longer here to defend themselves and I genuinely hope nobody writes about Mr Trimingham in a similar fashion now or in the future.

David Garner, Hove