THE letter from Jimmy Taylor, of Coxhoe, about his childhood memories (HAS, June 30) referred to horse-drawn ice cream vans.

Jimmy’s comment “it was never a hygienic way to sell ice-cream with all the horse droppings”

interested me.

Jack Rea, who used to bring his van to Chilton when I was a child, used to offer “monkey’s blood”

with our ice-cream.

It just goes to show that, even in a fairly small area, there are changes in taste.

Chris Greenwell, Darlington.