SIR – As a full-time NHS doctor for 34 years – of which 29 were spent as a partner in general practice – I had high levels of both job and patient satisfaction, along with good remuneration.
SIR – The queues we are witnessing as people pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II differ only in their clothing from the ones in the photograph on the front of Tuesday’s Features section, of people waiting to see Winston Churchill lying in state in 1965.
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.