... Sir, You recently published a very attractive picture of Glastonbury Tithe Barn. My photograph shows the interior of a similar big barn in Yorkshire, at East Riddlesden Hall, near Keighley, which shows the elaborate construction of trusses and stays to support the roof. The timbers are roughly finished but strong structurally, and the main supports are carried on stone bases to prevent rot at ...

... Sir,- In your issue of November 25 the I import of butter into this country was men- tioned, and it was stated that New Zealand's I contribution was eighty times that of any I other country. May we, as representing the I producers of about 88 per cent, of the butter I imported here, give you the latest figures I regarding butter exported to the United I Kingdom by our seven overseas members ...

... Mediaeval Querns Sir, The days when corn was ground by hand are recalled by the bowl-like object shown in my photograph, at Weston, a hamlet near Otley, Wharfedale. It serves as an ornament on the grave of Colonel W. S. Dawson, and is in an appropriate setting, for he was interested in archaeology. The headstone on the same grave is actually a boulder bearing prehistoric cup- and-ring marks. ...

... Sir, -To all appearances, the subject my picture is one of the limestone excavatio so closely associated with the Peak Distri of Derbyshire, but actually the huge bite o of the hillside is not the work of man. It a natural phenomenon which has earned f Mam Tor, at Castleton, the title of Shiverii Mountain. This implies that the dislodgment whit accumulates at the bottom is caused I the hill ...

... Sir, The Coach and Horses inn sign, con memorating the hey-day of the coaching er has long been familiar to travellers. Now th; the steam locomotive is likely soon I disappear from the scene, I wonder if thi too, is shortly to become popular as an in sign One such appears at Mellis, Suffolk, whei the 1912 Norfolk Coast Express is showi hauled by an engine resplendent in its livei of Great ...

... Sir, Anthony Clarkson, in his fishing article in your issue of December 23, rightly stresses the difficulties and anxieties involved in the catching of a fish and quotes the story of a salmon-fisher who, after thirty years of failure, hooked one which got away, causing hini to burst into tears and break his rod. I suggest that other field sports, so-called relaxations, can sometimes prove ...

... Sir, The recent reference in your pages to the ash house near Swansea has reminded me of a similar type of house used for a somewhat analogous purpose the coal house at Troston, Suffolk. Unlike the ash house, the roof, of which, I imagine, was essentially constructed of non-combustible material, it was possible to roof this building with thatch. It was built in the nineteenth century to house ...

... SIXPENCE SIR, -Your corresponded.*. John Benson and Katharine SniaO, t)uitc rightly point out thai local authorities need (o be pushed into spending their sixpenny rate. The Fortieth Society, which b sponsored by Encore, was formed last year in order to do iust that. We believe that the example of that gallant handful of councils who run their own theatres on that sixpenny rate can most ...

... CONTINENTALS SIR. The Continental type of theatre is thought my many to be the answer to the closing of musk hath which are finding it difficuh to keep open when present ing ordinary variety bills. Time alone will tell, but my experiences at Huddersfield Conti nental over the Christmas and New Year period provided an excellent example of how artists and man agement can pull together to build ...

... THE EMBASSY SIR, I am collecting information about lite history of the Embassy Theatre with a view to its possible use in a book. I should be deeply grateful if any of your readers could supply memories of the early days of the theatre or lend me any record*, playbills, and programmes which they have kept over the ycarv Yours fakhfnllv John Bennett central ^cnool of Speech and Dramn, limbassy ...

... This is a shame Sir,-- I was interested to read in a recent issue of Tele vision Today that a French modern ballet group appeared on Chelsea at Nine. While I am eager to con gratulate Granada TV on their excellent programme it seems a great shame that the plan ners of these programmes do not give enough opportunities for the public to see the best British talent Why do we see so little of ...

... CAN ANY PAPER BEAT IT? ir I HAVE been reading my weekly copy of The Stage now ?I for over two years with unflagging interest and enjoy ment I think there can be no other paper or magazine which gives so detailed and accurate an account of the many separate facets of the Theatrical profession. Now that Television Today has become an integral part of the paper I look forward to Thursdav with ...