IN Mike Laycock’s brief but excellent article for Judi Dench’s 80th birthday (The Press, December 9), he included a photograph of Judi as an angel in what was said to be the 1954 York Mystery Plays.

I don’t think this photograph is from that production, but from the 1951 Plays, the first modern production of the York Mystery Plays (York’s contribution to the Festival of Britain).

In 1951, Judi was still a pupil at the Mount School (as I was), and the angels for the Plays, including Judi, were recruited from that school (plus a lot of little devils from Bootham School).

As I remember it, Judi was not in the 1954 Plays, but in the 1957 production she took the part of the Virgin Mary.

Margaret Birch, Fenwick’s Lane, York.