SIR – My mother’s wedding was both green and economical (Letters, June 3).
She married in 1945, just after my father was demobbed, and made a rather impressive dress – complete with train – out of my father’s now redundant parachute. My father wore his RAF uniform, because he had no other suit.
I can remember the parachute-silk petticoats my mother and I wore for many years afterwards, which she made from the dress and its remnants.
Kate Alexander
A pipe of peace
SIR – Andrew Graham’s letter (June 3) reminded me of when carriages had corridors. Placing a pipe in my mouth, not necessarily smoking it, usually guaranteed a compartment to myself.
One which has been quite popular has been a stroll around Warrington Cemetery. The spring daffodils are especially eye catching at the moment at the Manchester Road venue. Warrington Cemetery on Manchester Road Among the gravestones are many of the great and good who have made Warrington the place it is today. Guardian photographer Mike Boden was there on Tuesday and has picked out three of the most memorable you can see.
Actor and musician George Formby Although born in Wigan, George Formby s roots were in Warrington. His father, the original music hall George Formby, lived at Hillcrest in Stockton Heath, where his more famous son was a regular visitor.
Died: January 23, 2021. HAL Holbrook, who has died aged 95, was a Tony and Emmy award-winning actor who carried a quiet authority in everything he appeared in. This came with added menaces for his iconic cameo in All the President’s Men, Alan J Pakula’s 1976 film about the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency. Holbrook played Deep Throat, the shadowy informant who meets the Washington Post investigative journalist Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) in an underground car park. With Holbrook’s face barely visible in the three brief but intense scenes shared by the pair, Deep Throat teases out his secrets in a cigarette-charged rasp that changes the course of American history.