THERE are always questions of car identities to bring you up to date with.

Memories 304 published a lovely picture of the Raby Hotel in Tubwell Row, Darlington – where the entrance to the Cornmill Centre is today and supposedly haunted – and was very interested in the posh-looking cars parked outside.

“They are easy for me to identify as I have had both of them,” says Barry Chapman in Norton. “On the left is a Vauxhall Victor FB and the other a Jaguar Mk 7, 8 or 9 – the Jag had the same body for all the models that were made up to 1961. Mine was a Mk 7, and it was the only car I had that lost its big ends. It made a fantastic noise when driving it to the scrap yard.”

Mark Cooper in Darlington was one of several observers who reckoned that the chrome side strips on the Jag meant it was a Mk 9.

And, ok, we accept that the car parked in Priestgate in 1950 is a Morris 8. This correspondence is now closed!