MANY years ago I asked my son why Bournemouth town centre seemed to be on the decline.

We were finding it difficult to find a car park near where we wanted to go and were getting caught up with one-way streets. His reply was as follows. Castlepoint, it will take the trade from Bournemouth town centre. And it has.

BCP Council seems intent on becoming an object of ridicule. The councillors seem to be fighting for schemes to improve the town and failing on all counts.

I remember trolley buses and trips down to the Westover Road with my mother in law. That was more than 60 years ago. She dressed up in hat and gloves. We shopped in the morning. Had lunch is one of the excellent department store restaurants. Some times more shopping and tea before returning home to Poole.

Those days are gone now.

Annie Chambers from Wimborne was right in her reasoning for the decline of the town centre.

SUSIE DEAN

St James Close, Poole