MR T Morgan's reservations about the security of the Elgar statue, to be unveiled on September 25, 2005, (Hereford Times , July 28), are perhaps understandable in these times when anti-social behaviour - and worse - is hitting the headlines.
However, perhaps we should look to Elgar himself for an answer.
He wrote probably his most famous piece: Pomp and Circumstance March Number 1, later to be given the popular name Land of Hope and Glory, which is now sung as England's anthem at such events as the Commonwealth Games.
He completed it in the summer of 1901 while living at Birchwood in Herefordshire (Abandon hope .....?)
While mindful of Mr Morgan's warnings and taking all the preventative measures we can, in these difficult times and with the Olympic Games coming to London in a few years, we should not be capitulating but maintaining and promoting the sentiments in Elgar's song and keeping ours a 'Land of Hope and Glory', of which the statue would be a most fitting symbol.
R M Bradbury,
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