I WAS appalled to read (LET, October 14) that there is no room in Blackburn Town Hall this year to house the Poppy Appeal volunteers.

I just can't believe that there is not some room in this very large building.

Now, the volunteers will have to go in Corporation Park and this will make it difficult for elderly ones who do not drive.

This could have an effect on the amount collected for old soldiers and their families.

Do these Town Hall officials who have made this ruling not realise what soldiers in the last two wars went through -- so that they can live in freedom?

Some never returned to their families. Others who survived, are still affected today -- blind, limbless and some mentally disturbed.

Perhaps the Town Hall officials are too young to remember. But the people of this country should never forget the debt paid by so many.

The Town Hall is the right and fitting place for the Poppy Appeal. I wonder if these same Town Hall officials will be wearing their poppy with pride and if they bow their head in reverence to the dead of both world wars at the given hour.

To act like this over one room in the Town Hall for only a short period is very small minded and an insult to our brave soldiers, both dead and alive.

H HAMER, Lowther Place, Blackburn.