Making a fine job of centre

Dear old 'Canopy Ken' Johnson, do you wander about with your own personal rain clouds hovering above you?

Really? A fine, if freezing cold day, all day, was what those that were actually there experienced. Not a drop fell on anyone.

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Do try to keep up with current developments.

That “flying saucer” idea flew away even before yon BT Building was built and the Harton Quays were, and are, being developed.

Fine job they’re making of it too.

If you’d use your eyes instead of your fingers you couldn’t fail to notice the progress of the new library/ hub/The Word building taking the place of the much-maligned Wouldhave House on the west side of the Market Square.

Derek Moulding,

local historian

and photographer

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