A number of readers contacted me - in person or by letter and email - to say they shared my concern about the future of the Coach and Horses pub in St Clement's.

Local councillors, if you remember, wisely rejected the advice of their planning officers that developers be allowed to demolish the building; but its future still looks uncertain.

One correspondent reminded me that the disappearance of a pub in that immediate neighbourhood would not be unprecedented. She was referring to the destruction of the Plasterer's Arms in Marston Road. This was a hostelry for which (though she wouldn't have known it) I felt a special affection, having performed the first-pint-pulling ceremony there after a refurbishment in the 1980s.

"The Plasterer's was a delightful building, in keeping with its still rural surroundings," she wrote. "I never went inside you missed a treat! but it was so obviously well cared for, festooned with flowers and hanging baskets. I noticed it every time the bus carried us by into Oxford."

My correspondent also alluded to Sunset Cottage whose demolition (more of those expensive flats) I also mourned in my article. She had known the building from the inside, since a cousin's daughter had lived there.

"Unfortunately, this utilitarian attitude to buildings seems to be widespread," she added, "and I fear we are about to experience a repeat of the 1960s, when many historic towns and cities lost more to developers than they had to the German bombers in the 1940s."

Let's try to stop them, shall we?