Copytakers - those kind people who save my fingers by tapping in longer letters and articles into our computer system - have just sent me more comments about Eastbourne School in Darlington.

The school's future, and past, is clearly a big debating point in town. Indeed, one of our younger members of staff has just mentioned that he saw last week's Memories. "I was there for five years," he said, "and everyday I walked past that house you mentioned and wondered what went on in there. I could see a bed in there through the window, but had no idea that that was where lasses once learned had to put on sheets properly."

Bless him. He's presumably refering to the "model flat" where, in pre-duvet days, lasses did indeed learn how to do such clever things.

Anne Gibbon writes with her views on what should happen to the school once it closes at the end of this school year.

"I had no idea that Eastbourne School, an imposing, dignified 1930s building, was in danger of demolition until I read it in The Northern Echo. Is this wanton destruction, or a "clean slate"?

The obvious solution, one which would have valued its history while building proudly for the future, would have involved incorporation and extension.

A fine building at the centre of a school lends gravitas, a sense of purpose, and history, which transcends time. With new development alongside, the whole reveals organic growth which is on-going, for future generations.

If the will to save the building is there, imaginative adaptions could follow - including uses for the wider community, as Cllr Ian Haszeldine suggested. He is right: it is an iconic building. Some towns would be proud of it."