From age 5, I went from West End to St Mary's School, on Moscow Mill St, then later to Paddock House. It was either the Blackburn bus (46) to Church Commercial, then leg it up Union Rd., or the (267) Ribble bus from Spread Eagle St. to the Palladium. Coming home in Summer I would walk up to Ash St. then across the fields to the Swanee on Thwaites Rd. There was a lovely sewer pipe across Tinker Brook that just begged to be walked/balanced across and the rest of the way was just a cinder track.
My dad got his first post-war car when I was 10. He never, ever gave me a lift to school - good grief, I had legs!
