Sir – Chris Koenig (Weekend, August 5) looked back at the sad end of the Clarendon Hotel. As he reminded us, it is generally accepted that it was Harold Macmillan, a graduate and later Chancellor of Oxford University, who personally decided to allow the hotel to be demolished.
When Macmillan came to lunch at County Hall in the early 1980s, nearly 30 years later, I reminded him of his decision. His reply was: “It is a pity it had to go.”
One wonders why, if that was what he really believed at the time, he allowed this vandalism. It is hard to believe that he had forgotten the occasion.
Ann Spokes Symonds, Oxford
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