I WAS interested in your piece on the Westgate Centre in Oxford (Memory Lane, November 11).

You say that when the Queen visited Oxford in 1968, she was taken to a marquee in the Church Street car park and shown a model of how the area would look.

In my book, The Origins of Oxford Street Names, there is a picture which shows that there was no marquee on that occasion, but that umbrellas were used. I always understood that the reason the Queen was taken to see the excavations was that Prince Charles was at that time studying archaeology at Cambridge.

I understand that not much was found there, except bits of pottery and household rubbish, which people previously living in Church Street threw into their gardens.

ANN SPOKES SYMONDS Davenant Road Oxford