IN HIS letter of March 12, Matthew Laverack refers to Ouse Bridge as having been on its present site since Roman times.

As the self-styled architect of this parish, I am surprised at this faux-pas; during the construction of the office block which housed GA (subsequently Norwich Union and now Aviva), excavations which could be visited by the public revealed that the Roman bridge was further upstream, ironically much closer to the site of the hotly debated Lendal Bridge.

It did, in fact, lie on a near-enough straight road which ran from a gateway into the civil part of the city, just to the north-west of the present-day Micklegate Bar, across the river slightly to the south-east of the presentday Lendal Bridge through what is now St Helen’s Square and along the route of Stonegate to the military headquarters building on the present-day site of the Minster.

Mr Laverack, along with Phillip Roe and about four or five other regular correspondents do seem to dominate at times. In a recent edition, I counted three letters from regulars all arranged neatly one after the other. I worry this might come at the exclusion of other writers whose views are equally as valid, if not more so.

Mark Cousins, Bellhouse Way, York.

Editor’s note: We welcome letters from all readers. Our ‘regulars’ are only published more often than others because they contribute many more letters. We do not publish their letters in preference to those from other readers. So if you want a letter in the paper, start writing.