I always enjoy Adam Trimingham's Remember When feature in the Weekend Argus. However, last weekend's piece on the demolition of the Central National School in the 1970s made me laugh out loud. His statement "It is hard to imagine today's conservation-conscious council committing such architectural sacrilege" has to be a joke.

I suggest you give one of your pages over to Selma Montford, of the Brighton Society, and John Small, of the Regency Society, who can entertain us with stories of their fights with Brighton and Hove Council, past and present, and their successes for which the council now takes credit.

They have fought, largely unseen, against the total lack of enforcement on planning issues concerning historic buildings and the general disinterest on the part of local officers regarding the heritage in our town, for many years. We owe both our gratitude.

-A. Older, Goldstone Villas, Hove