We just wanted to be different from our parents Further to your centre spread about the mods and rockers (The Argus, May 17), I was a mod in Brighton in 1964. This was a time when we broke away from the old-fashioned clothes our parents wore and their silly boring music.

We did not go looking for trouble. It was all about scooters, fashion and music.

There were posh mods who went to coffee bars like the Scandinavia Bar in Western Road but most of us went to the Zodiac Bar in St James’s Street. We also walked down Manchester Street to the Florida Rooms, where The Who played, or to The Starlite Rooms.

The culture was going to different coffee bars, showing the latest clothes and playing The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Motown or bluebeat.

Aside from this one time in May 1964, I would like someone to tell me when there was any other trouble between the mods and rockers. The thing was we were so different from our parents. Young people of that time were looked on as antisocial and trouble-makers.

Colin Kennard, Fallowfield Close, Hove

The Argus covered the 50th anniversary of the mods and rockers clash in Brighton, in which I was involved as a police officer.

One national paper also really went to town over this anniversary, having two full pages devoted to it.

It all feels so surreal somehow.

Who would have thought that standing by the Palace Pier all those years ago there would still be so much interest in that weekend 50 years hence.

David Rowland, Harvest Close, Telscombe Cliffs