Friends of Long Ago

[Barrie Yates]

I posted this originally in the Hello Section and the realised what a prat I was and this is one of the time it shows.
I have been racking my brains to remember names - Relative, Vincent Ryder - School, Jack Hartley - Friends, Keith Kitchener (Son of "Jason" the Observer Sports writer), Johnny Marshall, Pete Graveson, Bernard Cronshaw, Ken Entwhistle, Kenny Mitchell - Girls, Doreen Mills, Marion ? (lived in a small village on outskirts of Haslingden). At my age the memory isn't what it was, not too bad long term, but have to put some effort and time into the memory activation.
I will continue to attempt to remember other names in the coming days but if any of the aforementioned, or anyone who knows them can pust me in touch I will be very gratefull.
I hope to be in Accrington late June, to see me niece and to pick up some supplies - Greenwood's chees and some black puddings. You can take a lad away from Accrington but you cannot take Accrington away from the lad. An aside - the Frank Hoyle Cup, used to be my Sunday afternoon chore to polish it to earn the entrance for me and a girl to the Odeon Cinema - he was my uncle.

[Bob Dobson]

barie, you may be heading for a little disappointment . There is no Greenwood's cheese stall. You can still buy good chesse both in the market hall and on the Peel St outside market, but the market hall has faces missing. The lady who ran the stall latterly had bought the business off Mr greenwood. She now travels down to Wells in Somerset each weekend to sell Lancashire cheese on the market there. Another thing you can no longer buy on the market - oat cakes.