SIR - Re: “Village set for 1940s weekend” (T&A, May 7)

I read in the article that “visitors will be transported back to the Forties”.

If you want to mention the war efforts, why not show the immigrants who came to this country during the Second World War, such as my father who helped build airfields and after the war worked on the railways?

Will I see nurses and doctors in uniform, mock-ups of hospital wards, a celebration of that great 1947 (71 years ago) innovation: the National Health Service?

It is being held in Haworth, so I hope to see a celebration of the nationalisation of the railways.

This year is also the anniversary of the Windrush arrival of 1948. So will that be included too?

I agree that the wrong uniforms should be avoided. Why celebrate death when we should be celebrating the giving and preserving of life and the great strides to the future that began AFTER the war.

Anthony M Byrne, South Bank, Queensbury