I WAS both angry and dismayed to read (LET, July 19) that the refurbishment of Darwen Library includes replacing the front doors.

They are lovely doors and it is sheer vandalism to replace them with automatic ones, which will be totally out of keeping with the building.

Yes, the doors are heavy, but I am disabled and yet have no problem with them. Generations of people, including mothers with prams and wheelchair users, have passed through them.

Why have they suddenly become a problem?

I would also like to know what is going to happen to the doors. Are they going to be used in another part of the building?

It would be a crime to destroy them or use them elsewhere.

I am tired of so-called improvements which ruin historic buildings. We complain about vandalism done by young people, but what sort of example are they being given by those in authority?

BERYL NEALE, Wordsworth Gardens, Darwen.