Peel Park teacher Mr Ryan

[fireman]

what year did you leave

[Margaret Pilkington]

I left summer 1958.

[Margaret Pilkington]

That makes me feel soooooooo ancient!

[fireman]

i think we left at the same time what was your name then

[Margaret Pilkington]

Margaret Duxbury

[Margaret Pilkington]

A small scruffy kid with dark hair.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I used to have a best friend called Violet Furness.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Did you know the Hindle twins...Stuart and David?

[fireman]

so you lived at woodnook and i lived on the fire station houses on manchester rd and mated out with bobby jopson and frank clayton

[fireman]

the twins ring a bell but thats all at the moment. do you remember john redfern

[Margaret Pilkington]

I can remember Bobby Jopson, but not Frank Clayton or John Redfern. The Hindle twins lived up Royds St and their Grandparents had the sweet shop next to the paper shop on Nuttall St.

[Margaret Pilkington]

You may have known my brothers.... Peter, Michael and Phillip..... though they were always getting into mischief.

[fireman]

ihad a paper round at nuttall st paper shop, john redfern had a large birth mark or strawberry mark that covered his eye and some of his cheek. my estranged sister went to woodnook (maria robinson) she married len tattersall

[fireman]

philip duxbury where did you live then

[Margaret Pilkington]

We lived up on Riley's hill.....my mother still lives up there.