Since writing my letter concerning that "snap, crackle and pop" town hall microphone contraption which once again blighted an otherwise brilliant and dignified Skipton Remembrance Sunday occasion, and also other previous war-time commemorations, it appears that my correspondence (Craven Herald, Nov 25) might well have been worth the trouble. For, the whereabouts of the authentic equipment, for which I understand Skipton Town Council had invested thousands of pounds of public money, has resultantly now surfaced.

Apparently, it has been hived away in an old former engine shed!

Not much use there. Indeed, I could only wonder what would have happened if that same council management had been in charge of our nation's part in the "Battle of Britain".

Imagine Winston Churchill telling the nation: "We have plenty of Spitfires and Hurricanes but they are all - we think - presently stashed away in various aircraft hangers!"

Meantime, I appreciate my correspondence did arrive a bit last push for last week's edition, but I do feel it to be courteous - besides me having extolled the virtues of the general public and Skipton Brass - to also include that magnificent display of the "best of Britain" from the troops from Catterick Garrison, the Army Foundation College at Harrogate and also the various cadet forces including the squadrons of both Army and Air Training from Skipton. Indeed, the latter, 264 Squadron ATC has now - for more than half a century - also trekked up Buckden Pike on the Saturday preceding Remembrance Sunday to honour a group of Polish airmen who had crashed while fighting for our nation.

Conclusively, a magnificent show all around, except for the presence once more of the now proverbial Skipton guillotine, namely that "snap, crackle and pop" microphone.

Roger Ingham

Skipton