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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.
SHALLOTTE — Jonathan Wheeler “Jon” Cheers, 65, passed away Monday, May 31, 2021, at Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center following a lengthy illness.
Plan to open new footpath under Nottinghamshire railway arch
It has a test track above it
11:13, 8 APR 2021
The railway arch behind Wellingtonia Crescent in Edwalton. (Image: Joseph Raynor/Nottingham Post)
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