Romancing the 60s on London’s Goodge Street

The gardens above Goodge Street, the inspiration of Donovan’s 1965 song. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

Grace Dent, in her review of the restaurant 64 Goodge Street (‘You can imagine a Helena Bonham Carter character lunching here’, 25 August), suggests that “no one has ever purred seductively” about Goodge Street. I suspect that she is far too young to remember Donovan’s Sunny Goodge Street – not seductive perhaps, but certainly a moving romantic picture of 1960s London. As is her review of the restaurant.
Nigel Roseveare
London

• Further to Alys Fowler’s article on collecting seeds, I strongly recommend adding rocket, Eruca vesicaria, to her list (Never buy vegetable seed again!, 24 August). From an original sowing in 2010, I have been collecting seeds annually and sowing them the following year. These germinate rapidly, the leaves can be cut repeatedly, a succession of sowings can be made throughout the growing season and it is a source of nectar for pollinating insects.
Dr John Osley
Abergele, Conwy