It’s the little things that we hang on to

One reader keeps a wooden coat hanger that was prized by her father. Photograph: All Nea/500px/Getty Images/500px Prime

Re Adrian Chiles’s article (It’s only a coat hanger. But it brings back such fond memories, 31 August), I’ve a lovely wooden coat hanger that was prized by my father, who was born in 1901. His initials were EG – he was not pleased when a “friend” turned it into EGG, but it’s precious to me.
Nesta Ross
Manchester

• To keep the art of whistling alive (Letters, 31 August), readers might care to slip their children a copy of my latest book The Stolen Songbird. It features Jacinta Monday, a world-famous whistler who can whistle anything: birdsong, whole arias, hymns, symphonies and sonatas.
Judith Eagle
London