Letters

Can any of your readers throw any light on the name of the transport company whose horse and vehicle this was. I think the writing says Freerider? What is not in doubt is the telephone number of 111 which I am taking as being Leeds 111? The photograph is of my great...

A Birdwell clinic party from 1940 My street in the village of Birdwell was called Chapel Street, where I was born. One of 11, I had six brothers, four sisters and mum and dad, so 13 in all. Chapel Street is about a third of a mile long with houses on either side from...

I read Dianne Smith’s letter with interest as I remember very well the BBC Schools Broadcasts, Singing Together and Rhythm & Melody. I adored these programmes when I was about 7 or 8 at Rawcliffe Primary School near Goole in the 1950s.I seem to remember that one...

Carnegie Library in Shipley In the feature "Frozen in Time" the photograph of the staircase in the Carnegie Library in Windhill, Shipley, brought back so many memories. I was at pupil at the primary school opposite from 1947-1951 and, an avid reader, I went to the...

Denis Fox's painting of Eric Lock's Spitfire I was interested in the first picture shown by Denis Fox of the Spitfire flown by Eric Lock.In 1971 I moved to Bayston Hill, to a new housing estate two miles south of Shrewsbury. Whilse there a number of new roads were...

We receive so many handwritten letters and emails for our Readers' club every month we just can't squeeze them all in. So we're going to start adding your letters to our website too.Here is a selection, there's plenty more to come so keep an eye out for regular...