The milkman cometh
SIR: I was astonished to read (Spring issue) that Hunter Davies believes he may be the only person left in the UK who has milk delivered in glass bottles every morning. Oop ’ere in t’north, we have milk delivered in this way. We also have Ringtons Tea delivered, from a dinky van, once a month. Not only that: our daily newspaper is delivered from a local newsagent every day.
I still have my copy of Mr Davies’s marvellous The Beatles: The Authorised Biography, from 1968.
Yours faithfully,
Alastair Jones, Wilmslow, Cheshire
Car on a hot tin roof
SIR: Although never myself guilty of such behaviour [as in Piers Pottinger’s ‘RIP practical jokes’, Spring issue], I can never forget the prank played on a master at my old school, the Friends’ School, Lisburn, Co Antrim, by the sixth-form boys at end of the summer term in 1958, when I was a mere fourth-former.
Our physics master, Mr Jess, was a popular young master who’d been a pupil there himself but a few years before, and also coached
