BERNADETTE Downes’s delightful letter (ViewPoints, August 27) concerning the American visitors who advocated demolishing some of the historic Oxford colleges to make way for car parks reminded me of an occasion in 1990 when I commuted daily by rail from Southampton.
An elderly couple, obviously tourists and also from the USA, mistakenly thought the three cooling towers at Didcot Power Station were the dreaming spires of Oxford.
JOHN MACKIE Hendred House Cowley Oxford
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