SIR – John Ibbotson (Letters, March 24) noted the irony in the suggestion in the Leader column (March 18) that Kirkgate Market might be given “Yorkshire stone cladding”.
I would like to add that the Editor’s Note, “the demolition of the original Kirkgate Market was a great loss”, piled on the irony.
Doesn’t it lead you to imagine that in a further 50 years’ time, a future Editor of the newspaper will make the comment that “the demolition of the remarkable Odeon was a great loss?”
That is, unless those who are sounding its death knell come to their senses and preserve this building which gives to us, the people of Bradford, such a valuable sense of our identity and our past.
Julie Ivanov, Thorncroft Road, Wibsey.
EDITOR’S NOTE: And in 100 years, will they say the same about the current Kirkgate Centre? The original Kirkgate Market was, of course, largely built of stone.
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