YOUR article about the former Shepherd Homes HQ brought back memories for me (February 16).

As a pupil at Mill Mount Grammar School between 1956 and 1959, some of the older pupils - myself included - used to go to the house when it was an orphanage, St Stephen's I think, one evening each week, to help bathe the children, put them to bed and read them a story.

If I remember correctly, the bathrooms had more than one bath, and were very, very cold and austere. I wonder if anyone else has recollections of doing this?

Pauline Medway (ne Sedgwick),

Park Crescent,

York.

Updated: 10:49 Saturday, February 18, 2006