Further to Clive Alexander’s letter in the letters page recently on the Swindon Wheelers Cycling Club and its tea stops.

As a girl, I worked in Miss Hilda Long’s shop and café in the Market Cross, Malmesbury (now the Rajah Indian restaurant).

My job in this popular establishment was washing up after school several times per week.

At 13 or 14 years of age, I graduated to serving in the shop and café and remember members of the cycling club visiting. They were a great fun group.

I believe that their official tea break cafe was the Temperance Hotel run by Mr and Mrs Freeman; this is now the Smoking Dog Bistro.

Half of my earnings would be given to my mother towards the household and food, which was still on ration.

Some of the rest of my wages was spent on visits to the Athelstan Cinema to see the latest films from Hollywood with my good friend Betty W. Happy days...

Mrs Maureen Lovett, Tetbury Hill, Malmesbury.