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Three more pics, from my days at Whalley Road Congregational Youth Club. The date on the back of the football team photo is 22 April 1961 and fortunately all the names are on the back so I can tell you who they all are.

Back: Ian Ormerod, Anthony Neild, John Clegg, Renwick Richardson (had such a crush on him but he just wasn’t interested), Eric Steedman (lived on Queens Road West), Peter Osbaldeston

Front: Keith Topham, Richard Oldroyd (lived on Whalley Road just below the hospital), Terry Crowther (my first boyfriend!), Michael Blackburn (think his dad may have had Sudders butchers at Oakleigh), John Eastwood

The second photo is a May Morning Breakfast, for Young People’s Weekend, 6 May 1962. I seem to remember getting up very early!

Seated at table, from left: Marjorie Walsh, Bronwyn Rowbottom (she lived at Altham West, had brother John, their dad had Len Rowbottom bike shop on Blackburn Road), me (with freshly done cottage loaf hairstyle), John Eastwood, ?, Christine ?

Serving, Mrs Hurst (she had a daughter Verena), walking behind, Sandra Staples, in background, Bill Crawshaw, youth club leader

Wonder what we did for the rest of the weekend?

The third photo is the annual walking day. I am on the extreme left, it w Jaeger ould have been 1965 as I had that dress for my parents’ silver wedding party in May of that year, bought from in Manchester at enormous expense!

You can see the pipe band in the background. We are just passing the hospital at the top of Haywood Road, crossing over Queens Road. I’m assuming that this type of event no longer takes place but I may be wrong. I can remember taking part in walking days with various churches from the age of about three.