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| So very cross, the Mersey residents, when Birkenhead is wiped off map | So very cross, the Mersey residents, when Birkenhead is wiped off map |
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| In his 1980s Guardian series Fourth Division England, Matthew Engel alluded to a “conspiracy to pretend that Birkenhead does not exist”. More than 30 years on, and eight weeks after the town’s football club’s return to the fourth division, the Guardian is complicit in claiming the Birkenhead-launched RRS Sir David Attenborough would “make its debut in Liverpool” (‘Boaty McBoatface’ makes Mersey debut, 14 July).Bill McGinleyChester | In his 1980s Guardian series Fourth Division England, Matthew Engel alluded to a “conspiracy to pretend that Birkenhead does not exist”. More than 30 years on, and eight weeks after the town’s football club’s return to the fourth division, the Guardian is complicit in claiming the Birkenhead-launched RRS Sir David Attenborough would “make its debut in Liverpool” (‘Boaty McBoatface’ makes Mersey debut, 14 July).Bill McGinleyChester |
| • I bought my first Morris Minor (Letters, 18 July) in 1970 when I was at teacher training college in Reading. Our rooms had a lockable cupboard. One day, without thinking, I put a key into my car door and realised that my wardrobe key opened my car. I never told anyone else, in case their keys also opened my car.Mari BookerBrighton | • I bought my first Morris Minor (Letters, 18 July) in 1970 when I was at teacher training college in Reading. Our rooms had a lockable cupboard. One day, without thinking, I put a key into my car door and realised that my wardrobe key opened my car. I never told anyone else, in case their keys also opened my car.Mari BookerBrighton |
| • Spotted on Tuesday at Farnborough Airshow: an early split‑screen Morris Minor being used as a barbecue.Tony MackinnonBishop’s Cleeve, Gloucestershire | • Spotted on Tuesday at Farnborough Airshow: an early split‑screen Morris Minor being used as a barbecue.Tony MackinnonBishop’s Cleeve, Gloucestershire |
| • If Ian Grieve proves elusive on the Llangollen Canal, and Ms Collins (Letters, 18 July) wants to bag a regular correspondent, I am normally to be found in the Combermere Arms, Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton between 5pm and 6pm.Michael CunninghamWolverhampton | • If Ian Grieve proves elusive on the Llangollen Canal, and Ms Collins (Letters, 18 July) wants to bag a regular correspondent, I am normally to be found in the Combermere Arms, Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton between 5pm and 6pm.Michael CunninghamWolverhampton |
| • Re Ian Jack’s article (This, the third great summer of my lifetime, feels ominous, 14 July), may I throw into the mix 1947, when I was 13? It was a long, baking summer, and followed on the heels of a legendary teeth-chattering fuel-crisis winter to boot.Ron StevensonInverness | • Re Ian Jack’s article (This, the third great summer of my lifetime, feels ominous, 14 July), may I throw into the mix 1947, when I was 13? It was a long, baking summer, and followed on the heels of a legendary teeth-chattering fuel-crisis winter to boot.Ron StevensonInverness |
| • Paula Cocozza’s article on perfectionism (‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’, G2, 16 July) wasn’t bad.Dick CurtisGloucester | • Paula Cocozza’s article on perfectionism (‘My brain feels like it’s been punched’, G2, 16 July) wasn’t bad.Dick CurtisGloucester |
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