The real Rillington Place

TV CRITIC Christopher Stevens was impressed by the attention to detail in the BBC’s TV drama rillington Place (Mail), but there are a few details that need c orrection.

As someone who was born at 11 rillington Place at the time Christie and his wife lived at no 10 and who lived in the street for 23 years, i should point out that although we had outside toilets and no bathrooms, both the 1971 film and the new BBC drama were incorrect in depicting our homes as slums. My parents and all our neighbours kept their homes well decorated, furnished and clean.

Mrs Christie didn’t have dark hair, she had bright ginger hair and Timothy evans was Welsh and spoke with a Welsh accent.

Christie himself wasn’t short or stooped; he was thin and tall. And the trains didn’t rattle ‘behind his dank back yard’ — they rattled behind the house opposite, where i lived.

The BBC should have asked the people who lived there, it wouldn’t have been hard to find us. LINDA MYLWARD,

Thame, Oxon.