BOTH my wife and I clearly remember the dinosaur the museum during the 1970s. The skeleton was life size and the bones were brown in colour.

I actually moved from Bolton in the early 1980s to Somerset, returning to Bolton seven years later.

In fact, I took my six-year-old son to the museum last year specifically to show him the T-Rex skeleton after he had seen Jurassic Park on TV, and to my amazement it had gone! This is not my imagination, the dinosaur was exhibited for many years in the museum during the 1970s and 1980s.

N Samuel

Bolton

PRIOR to your article on this subject my wife and I have had several discussions regarding it. My wife insists that she remembers seeing this when she was about six which would make it in the early sixties, whilst I have no recollection. I am a couple of years younger than her so that may account for my not recalling the skeleton.

Barry Heyes

Bolton

AFTER reading Cllr Alan Rushton's article about the dinosaur in the museum in the 1960s, (January 23), I can confirm that this did exist.

I used to stay at the weekend with relatives, and used to visit the Museum.

I am 52-years-old, AND there were two things that held my attention, the dinosaur and the Egyptian mummy.

Mr A Mason

Ollerton Street

Adlington

I NOW live in Staffordshire but my Mum sends me the Bolton Evening News every week. There was definitely a dinosaur skeleton in the museum. I used to visit the aquarium and the museum with my grandma in the1950s and 1960s, and there was a huge dinosaur on display.

It was too large to be a figment of everyone's imagination.

Mrs D A Ross

Staffordshire