Sir, – Some sensation the accidental locking out of the church congregation at Gillamoor 100-years-ago, so described in your Looking Back column last week (D&S, June 20).
But two points stood out.
Firstly, the immediate suspicion that the lock-out was the work of suffragettes “who had obtained the key with sinister designs”. Clearly a bad lot those suffragettes. The shrewd folk of Gillamoor, up on the North York Moors, had the measure of them.
But secondly, “the key was posted from Bath” (Bath mark you) “on Sunday evening and reached Gillamoor on Monday morning.” A century of progress later, there’s the real “sensation”.
HARRY MEAD Great Broughton, Stokesley
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