Excellent coverage; JANE WOLSTENHOLME TRUST THE POST.

I AM sure most people would agree that last week's Open at Royal Liverpool was a huge success, and, with extensive coverage in the paper every day, some readers have contacted us with their thanks over the last few days.

Among them is Richard Kimberley, of Woodchurch, who writes: "I have never ever taken much interest of golf' I've never even understood the game.

"Not any more, after last week's momentous experience for The Open at Hoylake. I never realised what a wonderful experience it was to bring to our country, our region, our own Merseyside and, of course, on our doorstep in Wirral.

"Appreciation and sincere thanks have been wonderfully reported to all who were associated with making the event such a memorable one. We must not forget those in the background who rarely receive thanks openly, but worked so hard to bring the event to its deserved success.

"I would like to pay my thanks to Liam Murphy, the excellent reporter of the Daily Post, whose daily articles were superb and to the team of Wirral Council workers who I am sure will be thanked by Cllr Foulkes, the council leader."

Peter Elson would like to thank those who pointed out an error in his Literary Walks feature about Nicholas Monsarrat (Daily Post, July 15). This did not directly concern the author of the Cruel Sea, but a former near-neighbour in Rodney Street, the poet Ar Hugh Clough. Peter renamed him Arthur Hughes Clough.

Frank Boyce, of Rainhill, writes about Peter's following piece on Herman Melville (Daily Post, July 22) and his Liverpool-based no Redburn. Mr Boyce says: "Cha 37 of Redburn is headed 'Wha Redburn Saw in Launcelott's Hey' (his spelling). Lancelot's Hey used to run from Dale Street to Tithebarn Street, not the present Thistle Hotel site.

"The dying woman had three children. Melville was so moved by their condition that on one of his visits to the cellar he seriously thought of putting them out of their misery.

"On his third visit, he became convinced that they were dead. Returning again to the cellar after lunch on board his ship, he finds: 'In place of the woman and children, a heap of quick lime was glistening . . . I could not learn who had taken them away, or whether they had gone' but my prayer was answered - they were dead, departed, and at peace'."

Laura Davis's article on the generation of Toxteth Town Hall prompted Don Tilston, of Warrington, to write: "I read with interest your article on xteth Town Hall, with its splendid illustrations. To be honest, and I suspect in common with many people, I never knew there was one."

But Mr Tilston points out the reference in the article to Liverpool's workhouse, which states it stood on the site of the Anglican Cathedral, is wrong.

He says: "Oh no, it doesn't. It is, of course, as it tells you (or used to) in the building itself, the Roman Catholic one."

We must not forget those in the background

- Richard Kimberley, Woodchurch