5 JANUARY 2008, Page 20

Mersey, Mersey me

Sir: May I congratulate you on a superb Christmas issue? I particularly loved Beryl Bainbridge’s lament for the Liverpool of her youth. But when she says ‘My Liverpool has gone for ever’, she’s not entirely right. The old Liverpool still exists not just in her mind’s eye, but in the memories of all of us who grew up there in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s — wherever we’ve ended up!

Moira Cummings

Brighton