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Sir: Women's college rooms were also lockless in 1950s Oxford (letters, 5 and 6 November). We assumed this was to make sure our private lives were open to public scrutiny. A few enterprising inmates fitted their own temporary locks.
GILLIAN WIGHTWICK
London SW17
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