I am very saddened to see the old tram shelter in Queen's Park Road has recently been boarded up.

It afforded decent shelter in a windy and often cold, wet spot while awaiting the bus. Having been covered in obscene graffiti, it was painted over by two council staff only to be vandalised again the following evening.

I would have thought anti-graffiti paint could be used on this delightful listed shelter. Many of these shelters were built by men of the Tramways Department in the Twenties from Japanese oak with roofs of Sussex oak shingles.

To my knowledge, there is now only one other like it, in Ditchling Road.

Perhaps the parents of the teenagers who take such delight in depriving others of a shelter would like to pay for the cost of repair.

-Lavender Jones, Brighton