Manchester City Art Gallery was lending paintings to the public in the 1970s and 80s (Editorial, 15 January). We made trips to Manchester, looked through rows of contemporary art and made a choice, so the children grew up with a changing display of interesting and challenging art on the kitchen wall. Seems amazing now, but how delightful if the system started again – we’d be there like a shot!
Barbara MacLaren
Preston
• Re France’s loan of the Bayeux tapestry to Britain (Report, 18 January), there is already a full-size embroidered replica in the Reading Museum. The Victorian women who made the copy edited the original only slightly, adding pants to cover the bottoms of the naked figures.
Anna Watson
London
• You say the venue for the Bayeux tapestry’s visit is not decided – but it needs to be 70 metres long. It occurs to me that a very long wall may be sufficient, such as found in a train station. I recommend Waterloo.
John Hughes
Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire
• I’m glad President Trump knows when it is ten past eleven (Can you match America’s stable genius?, 18 January), but does he know how many minutes until doomsday?
Margaret Squires
St Andrews, Fife
• I’ve heard of transfer windows; is “United move hinges on Mkhitaryan Arsenal deal” (Sport, 17 January) anything to do with early doors?
Fr Alec Mitchell
Manchester
• I regret the demise of Carillion (Report, 18 January). I really enjoyed the band’s 1980s hit song, Mayleigh.
Jon Corfield
Birmingham
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