I REFER to your issue of (January 29). On page 32 you have a group photo of the agricultural executive committee supplied by Hilary Dawe.

I happen to be one of the unknown figures, (standing on the extreme right). I wish I could remember the names of some of the others. The only ones that I can recall are Comm F W B Edwards and Howard Sherrell, but those are already known to you. My excuse is that, with increasing age, one?s memory goes to pot.

However, I must draw attention to the fact that the date given is impossible. I did not get demobbed from the Air Force until summer of 1946 and I doubt if Comm Edwards would have been out of the Navy by then. I also feel there must have passed some time before I was asked to join the executive committee.

I think I remember the room we were using as a committee room. Did it perhaps belong to a society called the ?Order of Buffaloes?? Was it above the Corn Market?

I am not querying the fact of there being war agricultural executive committees, but that this photo was taken after the war, when these committees continued to operate for some time. There is some argument in the family as to when it could have been taken. I was married in 1952, and my wife says it must have been before then, but I feel I did not know Comm Edwards until she introduced me.

R E Woollcombe

Rumleigh House, Bere Alston

YOUR picture Those Were the Days, (January 29) brought back memories. I am able to fill in two of the unknowns. Back row second from left is Joe Hopley and fourth from the left Tom Howard.

Like myself and Richard Fox front row we were all four of us employees of the Devon Agricultural Committee. I imagine this picture was taken in the mid to late fifties when the office had moved to the Grove on the Princetown road. The photo was taken at the function room of the Union Inn, Tavistock, where the monthly committee meetings took place.

Mrs Florence E G Hamley

54 Haroldsleigh Avenue

Crownhill, Plymouth