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Memories are like buses

YOUR The Way We Were picture (October 7) took me back to my first job as secretary at Punch magazine’s offices, just off London’s Fleet Street, in 1970. Then forward 50 years, to my last job in Savoy Street. The one consistency? The No 11 bus! Julia Malone, West Sussex

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