Reading the Belgarum article about “Flushing the Unflushable” (November 23) took me back to my childhood in the fifties in Goring-by-Sea. 

My brothers would always fish with water guns at the end of the sewage pipe, visible at low tide in those days, and where the fish would hover for food flushing through the sewer. 

One day a set of dentures was washed out of the pipe. As our father was the local dentist, my brothers took them home, and sure enough one of his patients was delighted to receive his dentures back, which he had flushed down the toilet by mistake! 

I remember feeling that putting the dentures back into his mouth was even worse than me having to eat their fish caught in the sewage!

Jane Harding,
Back Street,
St Cross,
Winchester

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