I WAS interested to read Chris Lloyd's recent Echo Memories articles about women's football in the 1920s and 1930s. For 17 years, my late wife and I ran the Stonebridge Inn, Nevilles Cross, Durham, and for many years had a ladies' football team.

In 1973, when I was chairman of a national charity that built bungalows for people retiring from the licensed trade, Guinness put up a cup for ladies' football teams to compete for and raise money for the fund.

We took a coachload down to Dronfield, near Sheffield, on a Sunday morning and won 3-1.

I then found out that the Sunderland team which had just won the FA Cup was having dinner at the Cock o' the North in Durham.

I went and persuaded Bobbie Kerr, the captain, and goalkeeper Jimmy Montgomery to come to the Stonebridge and present the Guinness Cup to our girls. We had a great night.

P Smith, Lanchester, Co Durham.