Another link with our local heritage is to be lost as Bournemouth’s sole remaining purpose-built post office is to be transmogrified into a Pizza Express (Daily Echo, June 1).
Does anyone know what happened to the First World War memorial to the 23 staff of the Post Office who lost their lives in that terrible conflict which was erected there in the early 1920s?
And was there another for the Second World War?
I have been given no answer from the present postmaster.
The conflict in Afghanistan is concentrating most people’s minds at the moment, but in a few years’ time we will be commemorating the centenary of the then-called Great War and remembering the loss of so many hundreds of thousands of young lives in one of the most brutish of wars.
These men, too, were heroes.
We must always remember them and consider the consequences of, or need for, war.
After the First World War, many offices, churches, schools, all erected memorials to their colleagues.
Many of these old memorials are now being scrapped as these buildings are being demolished or modernised.
If we profess to honour our dead – past and present – surely these memorials should be preserved, if not in-situ, then in some appropriate place of respect.
John Cresswell, Southlands Avenue, Bournemouth
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