FURTHER to my previous letter (Letters, July 13 ‘Memorial move’), I do not recollect any response to the many letters that you printed a couple of years ago from any public authority that might be involved in re-siting the war memorial in the High Street.

Possibly there could be land ownership, highway or planning issues and it would be useful to know what, if any, they might be and what, if any, legal difficulties that might be envisaged.

I doubt that the church authorities would have any objection to handing it back (or even any right to) and probably only took it in the first place to help out. But, quite apart from a churchyard being the fundamentally wrong location for a public war memorial, some of those named on it or their relatives could have been of other faiths, churches or none and have objected to being memorialised in a C of E setting!

So, does the Town Council have a view or does apathy rule? If local authorities up and down the country can cope with having these memorials in their public places why shouldn’t Andover?

Surely there could be no better way of commemorating the end of the slaughter in November 1918 by making the reinstatement of the memorial it’s centrepiece.

Michael Wood, Dronfield, Derbyshire.