MY thanks to all of your readers who responded to my letter (March 11) about the route of the No. 8 bus in the Sixties.

Apart from the replies to the Oxford Mail (which I have been following, from afar, online) I am still getting letters by post!

I now have the route confirmed, with the odd variation.

Perhaps of equal importance, were the little extra snippets I was reminded of, such as the regular bridge-bus contretemps, horses being frightened by the No.8 and, of course, that redoubtable and flamboyant conductor, ‘Joyce’.

JIM LYNCH Park Street Towcester Northants