RECENTLY the City of London Cemetery Authority strenuously denied claims in your paper that it had smashed monuments there.

My photos speak for themselves. They show the sad result of what the cemetery director calls vandalism. Over 80 crosses have been toppled in this vicinity.

As the people who erected them knew, the very limited surface area they present to the wind, their weight and substantial bases, protect them from storms but not, alas, from the brute force exerted on them by men pushing them over, even if that means breaking them, as my photos prove.

Imagine how the relatives of the dead buried in these graves must feel on realising that it wasn't a bunch of yobs who desecrated them, but the very people entrusted with their care.

If the Corporation of London intends to restore these monuments it should be stated publicly and in clear language, with a time given for the work to begin.

A O'NEILL, Southbury House, Bulwer Road, Leytonstone.