SIR. As a reader of the Wandsworth Borough News, I wish to thank all those who worked to make the 2007 commemoration of Cromwell's Putney Debates the success it was.

In particular we are grateful to Sue Rolfe and those centred on St Mary's Church for the opening of the permanent exhibition The Putney Debates 1647: Cromwell and Democracy. Those who have not yet attended are urged to do so.

Thanks are due too to Putney Society for sponsoring the special showing of the 1970 film Cromwell at the adjoining Putney Odeon. This was attended by an estimated 270 people. Thanks also to the cinema.

All this you may think is quite enough, but hold hard, there is more to come. At the concluding Verso debate a member of the audience asked the speakers what else it was proposed to do to advance democracy in Britain today. In this connection I am pleased to announce that the Electoral Reform Society is sponsoring a meeting on Electoral Reform - What Prospects? in the Brewers Hall, adjoining St Mary's Church, at 7.30pm on Thursday, November 22. Please come if you are interested.

JOHN MARTYN Cherrywood Drive Putney