SIR — During the course of a recent celebration of 40 years of an old motor car club of which I was a founder member, I had occasion to drive my 1927 Wolseley motor car for over 500 miles between a Tuesday and Saturday.

This modest epic took me through parts of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. The route took in single track roads, A roads, sections of motorway and parts of old trial routes.

On my return to Minehead, I drove down Friday Street to collect some milk from the service station and turned into The Parade over the cobbled section which is not a pedestrian crossing.

There can be absolutely no doubt that this mis-shapen, bone-shaking 20 yards of highway, with its sunken cobbles, is the worst section of road to be found anywhere in the six counties I had visited.

This alleged "enhancement" is an embarrassment and a disgrace to our town and our county, and I enquire through your pages when it is going to be rectified.

Stephen Dear,

Northfield Road,

Minehead.