STREET SCENE: Sir, – While it would be a great folly for an outsider to intervene in the dispute at Bainbridge over the piece of public land on which a villager has placed plant pots and a whirligig clothes line (D&S Times, Nov 14), your readers nevertheless might be interested in seeing a comparable use of a public space at Braithwaite, in the Lake District.

Though this picture was taken only last September, the clothes line has been in this novel, very public, position for several years.

HARRY MEAD

Great Broughton, Stokesley.