HOW can anyone think that our Old Town Hall, splendidly designed by Waterhouse, as a proud civic cousin of its great city counterpart in Manchester, should become just another eatery with the silly, pointless name “The Lost and Found”?

And why yet another restaurant anyway?

The first ever symphony concert I went to, as a 10-year-old, was a live radio broadcast, by the BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves, of a young people’s programme from... Manchester Town Hall.

The thrill of seeing and hearing such sounds in such a building has never left me.

Furthermore, I found that local music societies made delightful entertainment in Stalybridge and Hyde Town Halls.

Surely present-day Knutsford can provide for such similar pleasures for residents and visitors, rather than just another place to eat.

The benefactors who provided town halls expected them to be used for events worthy of the splendour of the building.

Our town hall is an exceptionally distinctive landmark building.

Please can we have it back? Or is it too late? I fear so.

Alan Dean Carrwood