SIR - Regarding lessons in cookery (T&A, January 24), my three sisters and I attended Hanson School in Barkerend Road, which had a school flat, complete with bathroom, bedroom, lounge and kitchen.

We were divided into groups. In the bathroom we learned cleaning and how to bath and dress a baby.

Bedroom duties included making and changing the bed and cleaning, while in the lounge it was cleaning and polishing, and in the kitchen cooking lunch and goodies, washing and ironing.

I have always been grateful for those lessons.

My mother died in 1943 leaving four schoolgirls and we were glad to be taught "housewifery". Every school should have these facilities.

Veronica Farnell, Market Street, Thornton, Bradford