Sir, As a born-and-bred 'Saundersfooter' I read, with interest and much sympathy, the letter (April 18) from 'The Stafford Family' concerning proposed developments at Whitlow. They have evidently lived there for some time, so I know how they must feel. My grandparents farmed and had a market garden there in the days when they didn't know much about hectares, had a milk round in the village, and sold their garden produce in a shop in Brewery Terrace. My mother was married from Whitlow when my parents married in 1912, and made their first home in Railway Street, which possibly the Stafford family will also remember with affection. My mother died when I was three weeks old, and I therefore spent much of the first year of my life with the family at Whitlow. My once very good memory is not what it was, and I cannot claim to remember a great deal about that period of my life, but I remember much until Gramfer died in 1926, some time after my grandmother had died, and the family sold up. If they could come back I hardly think they would be enamoured by what is now known as Whitlow Estate, of which I have happy memories of Danters' Fair being held there in the home meadow, and the famous Saundersfoot village football team in their glory days of the 1920s and 30s playing there for a couple of seasons. Looking across the bay from Amroth, I would not exactly refer to the never-ending sprawl of Saundersfoot as a small village and, as a one-time farmer, I cannot go along with all the talk about wildlife. Having denuded some of our streams of fish, the otters might well set about the stock of goldfish in the fancy lily ponds of suburbia. Badgers are allegedly now causing huge losses for farmers in the way they are spreading TB amongst cattle, so we might have to be thinking of a site for a new sanatorium if they are let loose in the housing estates. The less said about foxes the better. We have to remember that "change is written on all earthly things, and never will the secrets of the past be revealed until the hour when the rocks themselves will melt away and there shall be no more sea." If Saundersfoot is indeed destined eventually to incorporate Kilgetty, Pentlepoir and even Tenby, there is hope of another Tesco to serve the area. Easier to drive there from Amroth than having to go all the way to Pembroke Dock, Haverfordwest or even Carmarthen. A suitable site would be needed so, whilst there is still time, how would it be to promote the idea now of eventually demolishing the old Harbour Office, Cambrian Terrace and the space to the rear? Just a thought, and as usual, I'm only trying to be helpful.

Roscoe Howells,

Amroth.