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I enjoyed Frank Keating's thoughts on the boat race (Sport, 23 March), but have to take issue with his attribution of exclusivity to Hammersmith Terrace. Perhaps now you have to be a multimillionaire to buy a house there, but not in AP Herbert's time. AP was the most unexclusive of men and Hammersmith Terrace supported a rich social mix of those of modest incomes and the moderately wealthy. In those days we still had a brewery up the road and the Cherry Blossom boot polish factory downstream. Not, I admit, a warm working class area, but exclusive? Non!
Murray Marshall
West Grimstead, Salisbury
• The best way to protest about bankers' bonuses (Letters, 25 March) is to stop supporting them financially. Use Smile (The Co-operative Bank) for all your banking requirements, including a credit card which donates money to the Woodland Trust. Then you can make a fuss with a clear conscience.
Irene O'Toole
Lowestoft, Suffolk
• I'm not sure how Anthony Wills (Letters, 25 March) feels that by the BBC's losing two orchestras "everybody wins". What about the musicians employed in those orchestras who are thrown on to the already overcrowded freelance market? More like everybody loses.
Jill Adams
Moseley, Birmingham
• Gavin Weightman writes of "sparrow pie" being a common dish in London (Letters, 23 March). We have been told that "starling pie" was a common dish in 1930s Devon. No need for sparrow pots, just breadcrumbs and a shotgun.
John Taylor and Thelma Rumsey
Kingston, Devon
• My gran could remember her father trapping sparrows with a brick, a stick and a length of string in 1890s Tottenham. There wouldn't have been much meat on a sparrow flattened by a brick, but perhaps more than on a fledging.
Carol Orchard
Winchester
• Your excellent obituary of Fred Titmus (25 March) failed to mention his immortalisation in the Half Man Half Biscuit track on Back in the DHSS.
Gerard Morgan
London
