The article about Lord March re-opening the Goodwood racetrack and giving it a Fifties' theme (The Argus, April 26) brought back memories of my friend Linda Champion and I spending three days there in the early Eighties.

As you can see, we were dressed up in hats, tweed skirts and fur coats and were also expected to wear real stockings.

A lack of suspender belts on the first day meant attempting to hold them up with pieces of elastic, resulting in us both looking like Nora Batty.

We were taking part in Dance With A Stranger, a film telling the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman in Britain to be hanged.

She murdered her lover, David Blakeley, a playboy who also raced at Goodwood. The film starred two then unknowns, Rupert Everett and Miranda Richardson.

Linda and her husband were the proud owners of a beautiful red Porsche from the Fifties. Vintage cars had been requested to park around the track and their owners were to stand by the rails, waving their programmes.

On the third day, we were lucky enough to be asked to stroll up and down the pits.

Needless to say, the few minutes devoted to our roles in the finished film passed by in a blur. It was unpaid but a great experience. I can at least say I was in a film once.

-A Older, Goldstone Villas, Hove