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Published: 31 May 2007

The Reverend Michael Scott deserves a heritage plaque

• THE Reverend Michael Scott deserves a heritage plaque I was shocked and saddened by your report of English Heritage’s refusal to put up a blue plaque to honour The Revd Michael Scott.
We in the wilds of the Welsh Marches border know too much about the dishonour cultural establishments visit upon freedom fighters to allow our own heroes to be scornfully ignored.
Michael Scott may never have been a household name in some benighted circles in your borough but he was among those engaged in steadfast opposition to the evils of apartheid in South Africa and who today continue to struggle against racial oppression and economic slavery of the world’s poorest people.
He was often in Hampstead Vicarage when I lived there with my husband (the late Revd Graham Dowell) in the 1970s and 80s and we were proud to host meetings of the Africa Bureau attended by figures like the late, great Paul Foot.
Before that, when Graham and I were working in Zambia, we came to know a number of exiled ANC members, all of whom beat a path to the door to sit at his feet when Michael was in town.
It felt like hosting royalty. You can be sure that these same people and their children have not forgotten Michael Scott.
How wonderful it would if King Henry’s Road could be marked out as a place of pilgrimage for them to visit.
SUSAN DOWELL
Clun Craven Arms, Shropshire

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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